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Adams (ed) Household Accounts & Disbursement Books of Robert Dudley. Earl of Leicester 1558-61,84-86 (1995) 520pp Index VG £10 Addy & McNiven (eds) The Diary of Henry Prescott , Deputy Registrar of Chester Diocese Vols 1 (1704-20), 2 (1711-19) & 3.( 1994/97) Record Society. Mint in dws. Each £20 -do- -do- Vols 1,2,3 Mint in dws £50 Alcock. Methodism in Congleton; a history of Wagg St6reet & the Kinsey Street circuits in Congleton & the surrounding area. 1968 Stapled pbk 60pp Library stamps on title page. Bookplate. o/w VG £6 Allen J Robin. Every So Often. Undated. Inscription from author (?) 1939. 111pp + plates. Cheshire-set essays rom ‘Cheshire Life ‘ Bears a library’s stamps & label £6 (Alsager) ‘The Acorn’ Training College magazine First issue 1947 46pp sig on damp-stained cover £5 (Altrincham) Official Guide 1971-2. Stapled pbk 48pp + folding plan. Library stamps Dewey label taped to front cover o/w VG £6 Appleby. Clockmakers of Cheshire 1999 152pp Illus Indexed. Bears a library’s stampon title page and paste-down. Remains of a label on free endpaper Inscribed by author on title page. In dustwrapper and polythene protective sleeve. A library label on the spine. VG £50* ArAngus-Butterworth Lionel. Old Cheshire Families & their Seats. 1932 218pp + index & plates. Inscription from author on free endpaper. A society’s stamp on the title page . £25 Arnold. A History of the Cheshire Agricultural Society from its foundation in 1838 (1985) 108pp Illus Insc on f.ep dw VG £5 (Ashton-u-Lyne) Corporation Manual 1937-8 Handbook 106pp + list of attendances by councillors at meetings. Data on council matters. Two pages have a child’s scribble in pencil, o/w VG £10 -do- St Peter’s Parish Magazine 1920 , bound with ‘The Church Standard’ Gilt worn from spine o/w VG £20 -do- Town plan 1835 for Boundaries Commission. Borough boundary in red. Approx 4x3inches in card mount. VG £10 -do- Notes on the churches of Cheshire by the late Sir Stephen Glynne 1894 Chetham Soc. Vol 32 152pp. Many are unopened. A bookplate has been removed from thed paste=-down. A small academic library’s blind stamp on title page. Top corner of free endpaper cut off o/w VG £40* Aspden (ed) Warrington Hundred. A handbook published by the Corporation on the occasion of the centenary of Incorporation. 1947. Pbk. 127pp + plates & folding map. Ex-library copy £6 Astle. (ed) History of Stockport wth a new intro by John Christie-Miller. 1922,- Reprint 1971 4to An inscription on the free endpaper. dw VG £12 Atkinson. A short history of the church of St Luke, Tranmere 1932. Pbk + photo plates. Library stamp on title page. Dewey label on front cover. £10 -do- A Naturalist’s Calendar : Wirral Notes ; being notes recorded during the years1893-94- 95 & 1896 in the Eirral Peninsula. 1897. Pocket-size book. Not paginated . Bears a library’s stamps & spine mark £10 -do- Tracts relating to the Civil War in Cheshire 1641-59including Sir George Booth’s rising in that county. Chetham Society Vol 65 1909. New spine and endpapers. 194pp Indexed 37 tracts.Library stamps throughout, o/w VG £60* -do- Notes on the churches of Cheshire by the late Sir Stephen R Glynne 1894 Chetham Soc

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Vol 32. 151pp Label removed from paste-down Library stamp on title page £15 Bailey John Eglington. Sir Peter Leycester of Tabley; The substance of an address to members of the Urmston & Flixton Literary & Scientific Society, 1878. 35pp pamphlet. Bears a library’s label & stamps. Incribed by author to Thomas Hughes, a Cheshire historian. With it is a handwritten letter sent by Bailey to Hughes. Rather flimsy condition. £10 Ball, Church Plate of the City of Chester, 1907, 158pp ills index newly rebound VG £30 Banham. Token & Commemorative Medals of Cheshire, post 1820 .Books 1 & 2. (c1989) pbks. 102pp/57pp ex-library £10 Bamford. The Making of Altrincham 1850 to 1991 . From market to megastore? 1991 Pbk 122pp Index Ilus. VG £10 -do- Mansions & Men of Dunham Massey from Errant Earl to Red Dean 1991 Pbk 99pp Illus. VG £8 Barber. The Chronicles of Canal Street: from BC (Before Christy’s) to 1868, with intro & notes by John Christie-Miller. Pbk 32pp + photo plates. VG Stockport hatting company. £10 -do- Chester Mystery Plays : Their origin & Purpose. 1906. Pbk 49pp 3 plays with a leaflet about their production stuck in. Lacks a title from spine. £5 Barker, Some Account of the Parish of Thornton, 1874, 22pp £25 -do- (ed) Talbot Deeds 1200-1682 (1953 Record Society Vol 93 ) 89pp A society’s bookplate on paste-down o/w VG Covers the Domvilles of Brimstage & Oxton £20 Barlow. A sketch of the history of the church at Holmes Chapel. 1853. Pamphlet bound into card covers by the library whose stamps & bookplate it bears 16pp £10 Barrow Women’s Institute. The Book of Barrow . 139 typed pages. Bound in cloth with a leather spine by the library whose label and stamps it bears. Prduced in 1952 from the scarp-bo0ok which was compiled in 1951 by the W I. VG £30 Beamont, Annals of the Lords of Warrington & Bewsey, 1587-1833, (1873 Simms), 165pp index, new eps, Some pencilled annotations in margins. o/w VG £20 -do- Annals of the Lords of Warrington & Bewsey from 1587 to 1833……1873 Simms. 165pp. Bears the bookplate of Joseph Edgar Boehm. Light foxing on title page, o/w VG £40 -do- Annals of Lords of Warrington for the first 5 Centuries after the Conquest, 1872/3 Chetham, 2 vols £60 -do- A history of the House of Lyme compiled from documents of the Legh family of that house & other sources. 1876. 205pp Recently rebound in green cloth by a library whose stampsit bears, o/w VG £27 -do- Warrington in 1465, as described in a rent roll of the Legh Family….1849 Chetham Society Vol 17 78pp of Introduction +151pp Indexed.+ folding plan. New spine & endpapers. Library stamps throughouto/w VG £40 Beazley. The parish church of St Saviour, Oxton. 1930 original cloth. Some wear top of spine.Bears a library’s stamps & bookplate. 81pp + folding plate & photo plates. Indexed. . Limited to 150 copies. Short inscription from author to a relative. £25 -do-, Notes on Shot wick, 1915, 176pp illus maps index coats-of-arms new eps £80 -do-, Thurstaston in Cheshire; an account of the parish, manor & church 1924. 233pp. 17plates,31 coats of arms,3 plans. Index. One of only 300 copies Newly rebound. Bears a library’s stamps VG £100.. Beck. Tudor Cheshire 1969. 111pp + photo plates. Map endpapers. a school library’s

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stamp on front f.ep. In torn dustwrapper. o/w VG £10 Bell Martin. An Accidental M.P. 2000. 230pp + plates. Index. Signed copy. dw VG £5 Bethell. Portrait of Chester. 1980 192pp Library’s stamp on free endpaper, o/w as new. £6 Bevan. Cuddington & Sandiway. Undated pbk. Card cover with plastic spine. Not paginated. Ex-library. £5 -do- Formula for Murder ; the ICI Mystery. 2003 Pbk with protective sleeve. 179pp Illus. From a reference library, not loaned. One page appears to have sprung, o/w VG £10 Bickerton. Memories of a Cheshire childhood. 1997 Pbk 80pp Library stamps on title page. Dewey label on spine o/w VG £5 Bidston. Birkenhead of Yesteryear1985 Landscape pbk 48pp 87 photos with captions. A library’s stamp on the title page o/w VG £10 Bilsborough, The Treasures of Cheshire. 1983 NW Civic trust. A4 Pbk 184pp Many illus index VG £10 Black (ed).. Nostalgic Wirral. 2000 A45 Pbk 104pp Extensively illus with b/w photos./ A library’s stamp on title page, o/w VG £10 (Bollington) . Cotton Town ; Bollington & the Swindells family in the 19th century 1973. Pamphlet 38pp VG £8.. Booth, The Financial Administration of Lordship & County of Chester, 1981, 207pp sig fep dw VG £10.. -do-(ed) Burton in Wirral: a history, 1984, 259pp pbk index illus £20.. -do- Accounts of the manor & hundred of Macclesfield, Michaelmas 1361 to 1362 (2003 Record Society) 96pp Indexed. dw VG £20.. Booth & Carr. Account of Master John de Burnham the Younger, Chamberlain of Chester, of the revenues of the counties of Chester & Flint, 1361-62. 1991 Record Society 247pp Indexed. dw VG £15.. Bostock. The Chivalry of Cheshire 1980 147pp Illus Limited to 1075 copies VG £30. Bott & Williams, Man’s Imprint on Cheshire, 1975, 70pp pbk, foolscap, + 6 maps, index illus £5 Boumphrey. Yesterday’s Wirral _ Birkenhead, Prenton & Oxton 1987 reprint. A4 stapled pbk. Signd by authors. 64pp Photos with captions. VG £6.. -do- -do- No 7 ; more of Birkenhead, Prenton & Oxton, including Bidston & Upton. 1992 A4 stapled pbk. 64pp Photos with captions VG Limited Edn of 100 copies £6 -do-- -do- No 6 ; Neston, Parkgate, Heswall, including Thursaston, Irby & Greasby 1991. A4 pbk 64pp Photos + captions. Limited to 200 copies Signed by authors VG £6.. Bowden, Community & Change: a history of local government in Cheadle & Gatley, 1974, 180pp index illus VG £12 (Bower) A draft legal document1,1811 13pp handwritten on paper – An arbitration bond re matters in dispute as t the estate of the late Charles BOWER of The Hough. Many family named, esp Ralph BOWER OF Wilmslow & Francis WARRRINGTON of Macclesfield. Unsigned. £30 Bowes, The Origin & History of the Warrington Blue Coat School, 1870, 38pp PENB £15 Brack. The Wirral. 1988208pp Illus Indexed. A library stamp on title page, o/w VG in VG dustwrapper. £8 Bradbury. Chester College & the training of teachers 1839-1975 (1975) 255pp + photo plates. Indexed. Bears a library’s stamps on title page,& spine o/w VG £10

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Bridge. Organists of Chester Cathedral, 1913, PENB 61pp £10 -do- (ed) Chester Historical Pageant 1910 – Book of Music Pbk 74pp Library stamp on title page. Spine repaired o/w VG £10 Brunner, Mond & Co Ltd. Celebration of the 50th anniversary of the foundation of Winnington Works 1873-1923. A library stamp on title page o/w VG £20* -do- The first 50years of Brunner Mond & Co. 1873-1923. 4to 106pp + photo plates. Slight corner wear. Inscriptions on the title page and half-title o/w VG – ask to see photos. £15 Bryant & Symonds. New Mills & District – a Look Back.1987. Landscape pbk 48pp Photos with captions. A library’s stampon title page o/w VG Bu’Lock. Pre-Conquest Cheshire 383-1066 (1972) 91pp + plates. Index. Library stamp o/w VG in dustwrapper & protective cover £10 Bulmer (ed) The Registers of St Oswald’s, Win wick .–Marriages 1754-1812; Marriages 1813-41 with Baptisms & Burials 1807-37 Baptisms & Burials 1756-1806. 4 volumes – 2 bound in cloth, 2 in card covers. Pages are typed. The vols bear a society’s stamp on the endpapers. Published 1983 (4) £80 -do- -do Marriages 1754-1812 1985. 353pp library stamps o/w VG £20* -do- The Unitarian Chapel. Cairo St, Warrington (1980) Pbk 56pp VG £10.. Burgess. The story of Dean Row Chapel, Wilmslow. 1924 122pp + photo plates. £20 Burke & Nevell. Buildings of Tameside 1996 A4 Pbk 161pp Many illus VG £10 Burne. Chester Cathedral frm its founding by Henry V111 to the accessinj of Queen Victoria. 1958. 273pp + photo plates Indexed. Decorative endpapers. A library stampon the half-titleo/w VG in VG dustrwrapper & p[rotective sleeve. £6 Burnley & Huntington, Images of Wirral,1991,160pp, colour plates & map, large format dw VG signed £10 Burrows Cheshire’s Famous; comprehensive guide to celebrity Cestrians 2004 192pp Ills Index VG dw £6 Byron & Partington, Sale in Times Past, 1983, 56pp pbk photos/captions VG £8 Capener et als. The 1851 census returns for the township of Widnes; an index of surnames. 1986. A4 typed transcript in card covers and with a plastic spiral spine. 98pp A library’s stamp on the title page o/w VG £10* Carden. The Anderton Boat Lift . 2000 . Large format.180pp Illus Indexed. VG in VG dustwrapper £10 .. Carrington (ed) Deva Victrix; Roman Chester re-assessed. Papers from a weekend conference held at Chester College, September 1999. Pbk. 120p Illus. Indexed. Bears a library’s stamps on title page, o/w VG £10* Carter, Warrington & the Mid-Mersey Valley 1971 206pp & index dw VG Signed copy £20 -do- Libraries, Golf & Local History. 19898 Pbk.112pp Illuis Warrington librarian’s autobiography. Library stamps o/w VG £6 Cartlidge, Newbold Astbury & Its History, 1915 reprint 1985, 214pp index illus VG £15 -do- -do- 1915 edition in a fine new green cloth binding but has a library stamp on the title page £40 Chadwick. Reminiscences of a Chief Constable c1900 – reprint 1974. 166pp +ads. Author was policeman in the Tameside towns. dw VG £12 -do- Reminiscences of Mottram…….186? – reprint 1972. Ex-library but VG. 86pp + photos & a poem on Mottram 16pp £8

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Chaloner. William Furnival, HE Falk & the Salt Chamber of Commerce 1815-99; some chapters in the economic history of Cheshire 1960 Offprint pamphlet 24pp Inscribed by author VGT £5 Champness. Thomas Harrison, Georgian architect of Chester & Lancaster 1744-1829. (2005) Pbk 151pp Illus drawn 1802 by Wilkes. On paper Approx A4 size Not coloured. From Encyclopedia Londinensis £20 Chapman. County Palatine ; a plan for Cheshire 1948 edition with additional maps. Described as ‘Full edition’ 215pp+ photo plates. Folio size. Bound in cloth by the library whose stamps it bears.No labels. Never issued. VG £30.. (Cheade Hulme) All Saints Parish Magazine October 1963 – Centenary issue. Stapled pamphlet 24pp Illus. Library stamps mo/w VG Church history £6. (Cheshire) On the Civil War Trail in Cheshire1989. Staples pbk 56pp Library’s stamp inside front cover .Sticker on front cover. o/w VG Colour photos. £6 -do- County Handbook 1970 pub Burrows. 1970. Brochure bound into clthcovers 160pp Illus. A library’s stamp. Title & Dewey mark on spine. VG £8 -do- A Table shewing the respective distances of each township in the county from the castle in Chyester & from Nether Knutsford, with the population of each according to the late census; the acreage, the valuation of rateable property; assessment to the county rate, accompanies by maps of the several hundreds. 1842. The book has been rebound in cloth by the library whose stamps and bookplate it bears. Dewey mark with title on spine. VG. £50 Cheshire Federation of Women’s Institutes. Cheshire Villages. 2001 Pbk in protective sleeve. 96pp with colour photos. Library stamp on title page. Dewey label on spine. £5 (Chester) Chester Poets Anthology XV 1990 Pbk 131pp Library stamps o/w VG £5 -do- Chester Historical Pageant 1910. 80pp brochure bound in cloth by library whose stamps are on title page. Labels removed from paste-downs o/w VG. £20* -do- The Chester Mystery Cycle; a facsimile of MS Bodley 175. (1173 Leeds Univ. Intro by Lumiansky & Mills. Not paginated, A large, heavy Pbk. Bears a library’s stamp and bookplates o/w VG £30*… -do- the opening of Cheshre County Hall, 11.7.1957 4to stapled pamphlet 20pp Official programme. Library stamps on front cover & obverse. £6 -do- Chester Revisited ; a miscellany by local writers. c 1985 Stapled pamphlet 4to 80pp Fact, fiction, humour & verse. Library stamps on title page, o/w VG £5 -do- Official Guide. 1955-690pp + folding plan Bears a library’s stamps o/w VG £6. -do- Festival of Britain- Chester Festival 1951 32pp pamphlet . Rusty staples have been replaced. One library stamp inside front cover. £6 Chester Archaeological Society. Galleries which they call The Rows 4to Pbk 93pp Illus Indexed. It is Vol 67 of the society’s journal 1984. VG £8 Chester Library. Chester Newspaper Index 1955-59. (1964) 150 Foolscap typed pages. Compiled by library staff. No labels. Two library stamps o/w VG in red ccloth. £24.. Chester Christian Temperance Society Annual report 1949. Small pamphlet 20pp ex-library, bound in a card cover VG £5 Chester College. Collegian (Magazine) 1983. Pbk. 64pp. Library stamp o/w VG £5 Chester Golf Club. Centenary 1901-2001 101pp Illus. A library’s stamps on opening page and a Dewey label on spine, o/w VG £10..

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Chesterman, Laughter in the House ; local taxation & the motor car in Cheshire 1888-1978 (1978) A4 pbk. 60pp Profusely illus ex-library £6... Christie-Miller. A Record of Stockport Volunteers & their Armoury 1969 Pamphlet 20pp Illus. Bears a library’s stamp on title page o/w VG £5 (Christleton) Christleton; 2000 years of history (2000) A4 Pbk 132pp + colour plates.Subscribers list. VG £18 (Clark) Legal document (Indenture_1771 Mortgage of a tenement in Chorley, Wilmslow between Joseph Clark & John Clark Single large sheet of vellum. Signed & sealed by Joseph (signature may be Clarke) Some staining £30 Clarke. Cheadle through the ages. 1972, 54pp Illus. A library bookplate has been removed from the p-aste-down . Library stamp n the title page.o/w VG in a dustwrapper and protective sleeve. £10 Clayton, The Administration of the County Palatine of Chester 1442-85, 1990 Chetham Society , 313pp dw VG £8.. Collins. Chapters in Parish History;; the first hundred years of the Church of St John the Divine, Brooklands c1968 Newly rebound. Library stamp on obverse of title page. 86pp + plates £15 (Combermere Abbey) Steel engraving –Interior of Library. Undated 9x12” with generous border in a card mount. By Augustus Butler. VG £20 -do- Copperplate engraving 1727 by S&N Buck. – The West View of Combermere Abby (sic) in the County of Chester. 9x14” in a green card mount. VG £20 Combermere Viscountess. Our Peculiarities. 1863 ‘For Private Circulation’ 364pp Ex-library with usual stamps & labels. Top of spine missing. £10- Compton & Duckworth. Chester . 1910 183pp + colour plates by Compton . Indexed. Folding map. Rebound by library whose stamp is on title page, o/w VG £10 Cooke. Ida, or The Mystery of the Nun’s Grave at Vale Royal Abbey ; an historical novel. 1912 (First Edition) 381pp New endpapers Light foxing. £15* -do- -do- Quarto , recently rebound in maroon cloth by library whose stamp it bears. ‘Withdrawn for sale’ stamp on free endpaper. No 53 of a signed, limited edition of 300 Foxing on title page. Top edge gilt. VG £120*

Corrie. An illustrated history ofMethodism in Bramhall 1971. Stapled pbk 40pp Illus. Library stamps on title page. Bookplate on inside of front cover o/w VG £6 Corsair, Thistledown: Poems, c1940, 101pp Stockport poet £10 Cox. A history of Sir John Deane’s Grammar School, Northwich 1975. 317pp + plates. Indexed. Library stamps o/w VG in dustwrapper & protective cover £10 Crewe Alex FC. Official handbook 1950-51. 24pp pamphlet £10 -do- Chronological data relating to the churches of Cheshire. Undated essay from a learned journal, newly rebound by a library whose stamp in bears. 76pp VG £6 Croston (ed) The Register Book of Christenings, Weddings & Burials within the Parish of Prestbury…1560-1636. Record Society Vol 5. 1881 346pp . Sometime rebound by the library whose label & stamp it bears, o/w VG £40 Croxford. Rugby Union in Lancashire & Cheshire. 1950. 127pp + plates. Library stamps £20 Cullen & Hordern. Castles of Cheshire. 1986. A4 pbk 32pp bound into cloth by library whose stamps it bears on the title page. £5..

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Cullen, Haynes, Lock & Plevin. Living Memories of Hyde 1990. A4 Pbk Recorded interviews 144pp Extensively illus with b/w photos VG £10 Curran et als. Change at Crewe 1984. Landscape pbk. 56pp Photos with captuions. Ex- library copy/ £5 Cust, The Papers of Sir Richard Grosvenor, 1st bart 1585-1645 (1996 Record Soc) 102pp Index dw VG £15.. Darling. Walks in North Cheshire 1994 Pbk 144pp Illus ex-library copy o/w VG £6 -do- West Cheshire Walks : From Warrington to Whitchurch , Wilmslow to the Wirral 1988 169pp Illus. Bound in laminated boards.A Reference library’s stamps & sine label, o/w VG £6 (Davenham) Davenham, 900years of work & worship. 198? Pbk. 104pp Illus. Library stamp, o/w VG £8 Davies. (ed) A History of Macclesfield 1968 404pp +plates Index. VG £20 -do- The Agricultural History of Cheshire 1750-1850 . Chetham Soc Vol 10 1960. 230pp Indexed. ex-library with occasional stamps Labels removed VG £18 Dean. Bramall Hall; the story of an Elizabethan Manor House 1999 Pbk. 132pp Ills Map endpapers VG £8 -do- The lfe of Rev John Holme, vicar iof Lower Peover…..1875. 52pp + plates. ex-library with stamps & labels. £20* (Dee) Dee Estuary Scheme, Phase 2a ;Vols 1&2. Pub March 1971. By HMSO. Plastic comb binding in plastic covers. Library stamps & labels. Binnie & Partners of London produced the report £25 De Tabley Lord The Collected Poems of. 1903 .485pp + 5pp of notes. Decorative cloth cover. Wear at spine ends & corners. Internally tight. Bears a library’s label & stamps £15 Dore History of Hale from Domesday to Dormitory, 1972, dw VG 164pp + folding map £25 -do- Cheshire 1977. 1192pp + photo plates. library stamps on title page. Remains of a label on free endpap[er, o/2 VG in a dustwrapper & protective sleeve. £6 Dow. Audlem then & now. 1977 Sapled Pbk 40pp Bears a library’s stamps etc o/w VG £6 Driver. Cheshire in the Later Middle Ages 1971 168pp + plates. Indexed. dw VG £10 .. (Dukinfield) Dukinfield Old Chapel Sunday School Centenary Souvenir 1900 109pp & plates. a.e.g. £15 Dyke. Impressions of Chester in the mid 20th century . c1950. Stapled pamphlet 32pp Bears a library’s stamps and bookplate . £5… Earl, Middlewich 1900-50 (1994) Pbk 216pp & folding map Illus index VG £15 (Eaton Hall) Two steel engravings c 1830 by Neale & Radclyffe in a mount together. On the obverse is a single page description of the hall VG £20 Earwaker. Parts from his ‘East Cheshire’ (1877-80) newly rebound in green. Large format. VG.:- Cheadle Parish 94pp + plates £ Gawsworth & Alderley Parishes 43/46pp + plates £30 Mottram in Longdendale Parish 65pp+ plates £30…Parish of Stockport (2 parts bound together) Front cover board is slightly ‘wrinkled’ £30 Northenden Parish 63pp + plates £30 … Dukinfield, Hyde, Marple, Romiley, Chadkirk, Disley & others 100pp £30 -do- (ed) An index to the wills & inventories now preserved in the Court of Probate at

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Chester 1701-20….(1889 Record Society Vol 20) 261pp ex-library o/w VG. £10 -do- -do- Record Society Vol 2 1879 ex-library £10.. -do- -do- Record Society Vol 4 1881 VG £10* -do- -do- Record Society Vol 15. Covers 1660-80 £10 * -do- History of the Church & Parish of St Mary on the Hill, Chester ……edited by Morris 1898. Large paper copy newly rebound . Original title-piece on spine. Ex-library (?) £40 -do- Local Gleanings; an archaeological & historical magazine chiefly relating to Lancashire & Cheshire - Vol 1 (all printed) 1879. 480pp +plates. Bound in leather half-bound style by the library whose small stamp it bears. £45 (Eccleston) Transcripts of Eccleston Church Records : Births 1593-1760, Marriages 1595- 1760, Deaths 1593-1760. Transcript made by Heber Fearnall 1967. Not paginated. Bound in stiff card withy a plastic spiral spine. Bears a library’s stamps £20. Edington. The Clowes family of Chester, Sporting artists 1985 A4 Stapled pbk 64pp Illus. Library stamp on title page. Dewey label on front cover. £10 (Ellesmere Port) Charter Day 1955. Souvenir booklet. Stapled 24pp Library stamp £8 Emery. Chester Electric Lighting Station : steam to hydro…..2002. Pbk 80p Illus. One of 500 copies £8 English Tourist Board. Chester Tourism Study 1984 A4 in card covers. 71pp Illus. Bears a library’s stamps & labels. Never issued. £10 (Engraving), 1867, approx 7"x5" (a) Macclesfield, Hall £5 -do- West Hall, High Leigh as it appeared in 1814. Probably taken from Ormerod’s ‘Historic Cheshire’ approx 7x9inches in a card mount. VG £10 -do- Bewsey, Warrington. c1830 by Pickering & Finden 3x4inches + generous margins. £5 See ( (Eaton Hall) and (Tatton Hall) Evans-Lloyd Agnes. Heera Sing; a sequel to The Squire’s Manuscript. 1900 95pp . ex-library reference copy with stamps & labels. Title on spine is hand-written. £10* Farrell. History of Church Lawton Gate School 1992. Stapled pamphlet 36pp Library stamp on title page o/w VG £5 Fisher (ed), The Magic of Lewis Carroll 1973 288pp Illus Index. One corner badly damaged dw. £5 Fletcher. A short history of Hazel Grove from olden times. 190164pp n+ photo plates. Bears a library’s stamps & label, The signature of William Vernon on title page £10 Fogarty A Burtonwood Story 1986 Pbk 52pp illus £10 Foster Charles.. Four Cheshire Townships in the 18th Century – Arley, Appleton, Stockton Heath & Gt Budworth 1992 Pbk. 88pp Illus. Top corner cut off half-title o/w VG £5.. Foster Irene. The register of the chapel of St Thomas, Heaton Norris; Baptisms 1769-1845; Burials 1767-1850 (1982 LPRS Vol 121) 196pp + folding map VG £15 -do- The registers of the parish church of Warrington; 1680-1706 (1986 LPRS Vol 125 ) VG £15 Foster Alan.,. A history of Farnworth Church, its village and parish 1981. Pbk.68pp Colour & b/w photos. VG £12*.. Gaskell Society Journal Vol 1 Summer 1987 pbk 74p £5 Gatty. Mary Davies & the Manor of Ebury –vol 2. 1921. 2285pp + plates. Indexed. Bears a library’s stamps and Dewey mark on spoine, o/w VG. Much Chshire content. £6 Gibbon . Some Cheshire Gibbons.; a family history. 1972. Stapled pbk 68pp+ folding pedigree. Typed text. Bears a library’s stampso/w VG £10 *

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Gibson, Original Correspondence of Lord President Bradshaw: with other documents illustrating his personal history, 1861, 34pp & 26pp PENB, Marple family, with brother's journal £15 Goodchild, Ikin & Leach. Looking back at Knutsford 1984. Landscape pbk. 48pp b/w photos with captions. £8 Goulding. A North West Village at War; A memoir of Winwick & its environs 1939-45 (1987) 4to pbk.72pp Illus Library stamps on title page o/w VG £8 Grealey. The Archaeology of Warrington’s Past. 1976 A4 100pp + folding plates (Great Sankey) Gt Sankey Church Souvenir Handbook for 3-days bazaar Nov 1930 Staled pamphlet16pp. One library7 stampon page 1 o/w VG £8 Groombridge (ed) Calendar of Chester City Council Minutes 1603-42 ( 1956 Record Society Vol 106) 243pp A society’s bookplate on paste-down o/w VG £20* Hadfield. Macclesfield Memoirs. 1984. Pbk 92pp Library stamps. £5 Hadfield-Brocklehurst. Nancy. Hurdsfield Girl ; Memories of Macclesfield. 2002 Pbk in a protective sleeve. Bears a library’s stamp and Dewey label on spine, o/w VG £6 Hall. The Bollin Valley; A study of land management in the urban fringe. 1976. A4 pbk 48pp + folding plates. A library’s stamps on title page o/w VG £8 Hanshall. The History of the County Palatine of Chester. 1817. Folio size. Rebound in brown cloth by the library whose stamps and bookplate it bears.No wear. 568pp n+ plates. Some of the plates have been professionally repaired at the edges. A few handwritten letters and notes, also some adverts and a pedigree have been added at the end of the book. . A barcode stuck onto the rear paste-down. Will peel off. £170* (Hargrave & Huxley) Images of Hargrave & Huxley ; a pictorial history of East Cheshire villages 1999. Landscape A4. 52pp photos with captions. Library stamps inside front cover & page 1.o/w VG £8 Harris. Cheshire & its Rulers. 1984. Pamphlet 38pp As new £5 Harrison et als. Loyal Chester; a brief history of Chester in the Civil War period. 1984. Landscape pbk 36pp Illus. Library stampos on title page £6 Hartley. 2ZY to NBH; an informal history of the BBC in Manchester & the North West. 1987 Pbk Illus Index VG £5 Haswell The Abbey church of St Werburgh in pre-Norman times. 1917 24pp pamphlet. Library stampinside front cover. Inscribed by author £5 Hayns. Richard Alport’s Charity Children; the story of the Malpas Alport School Pt 1 1745- 1903 ( 1995) Pbk library stamp o/w VG 42pp £5 Hazel Grove & Bramhall Urban District Official Guide. 1956 32pp & folding map. Bears a library’s stamps . £5 Head. Moreton Old Hall, with an account of past & present owners. 192? New staples 32pp Illus Bears a library’s stamps Small label on front cover , which is torn . £6 Heginbotham, The History of Non-Conformity in Stockport 1883. 85pp & plates A chapter from his ‘History of Stockport’ Newly rebound VG £50 Hemingway. History of the city of Chester. 1831. Complete in two voumes but the two are not an exact pair in that one has been trimmed smaller than the other. Both are ex-library with leather spines. Folding plan in Vol 2 £120 Heusel Handforth through the Ages. 1982. Stapled pbk 46pp Illus VG £5.. Hewitt. Medieval Cheshire ;an economic & social history of Cheshire in the reigns of the 3 Edwards. 1929 Chetham Soc. Vol 88 212pp + plates. A bookplate has been removed from

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the paste-down o/w VG £40* Hickey. History of the Old Chapel Sunday School, Dukinfield 1800-1950 (c1950) Pbk 76pp VG £8..’ Historic Society of Lancashire & Cheshire. Vol 9 1894. Inclues essays onEarly Christian monuments , Ancient parish of Bidtson, A racing stable at Wallasey. Wear at spine ends £12 Highet, The Early History of the Davenports of Davenport, 1960 Chetham, 110pp index illus, owner's sig fep o/w VG £30*. Hill, Bygone Stalybridge, 1907, 331pp, library no. on spine o/w VG £30 -do- -do- 1907. A large paper copy, No222 of 270 copies. Newly rebound. VG £ 40* Hill & Booth. Chester County Court Indictment Roll 1354-77 (2019 Record Society) As new in VG dustwrapper. 594pp Indexed. £20 Hodson, Cheshire 1660-1780: Restoration to Industrial Revolution, 1978, pbk, VG £10 -do- The Story of Wilmslow 1971. Stapled pbk 88pp Illus Inscribed by author on obverse of front cover. VG £8 -do- The Old Community; a portrait of Wilmslow 1974 150pp + folding map. VG in a torn dustwrapper £15 Hole. Traditio0ns & Customs of Cheshire1937- reprint 1970. 214pp Illus Indexed. Library7 stamp on title page & remains of a label & barcode on free endpaper, o/w VG in a VG dustwrapper & protective sleeve. £6 Hooley. Old taverns,inns & public houses in Stockport. 1978. St6apled pamphlet 28pp Library stamps £6 Hope. Castles in the Sand; the story of New Brighton 1982 Pbk 45pp + photos . VG £10 Hollett. Men of Iron; the story of Cammell Laird Shipbuilders 1828-1991 A4 Pbk 65pp Illus VG £5.. Horne. Didsbury Church & its folk 1970 Pbk 54pp Illus VG £5 .. (Hough) Hough Families around the world. A book compiled and published in 1989 by Halbert’s Card covers 59pp + hundreds of addresses of Houghs throughout UK and the world. VG. It is accompanied by 6 issues of The Hough Quarterly Magazine 1970- 71 VG . £20 Hughes. The Vale Royal of England, or the County Palatine of Chester, 1656 reprint 1976, 165pp VG £15 -do- Memoir of the late Rev W B Massie, rector of St Mary’s church,Chester…..1857. In the original paper covers which are fragile. Inscribed by author to his mother. Ex- library.33pp + plates Deserving of a rebind. £15 -do- A Family of Newspapers ; the story of the Chester Chronicle & its associated newspapers. 1974. Stapled pamphlet 28pp Illus. Library stamp £5 -do- A Glimpse of old Handbridge. 2003 4to pbk 118pp Photos with captions. Library stamps & spine mark Corners bruised £6 Hurley. Winsford through time. 2009. Pbk. 96pp Photos + captions. Ex-library but VG £5 Hurley & Morgan. Chester through time. 2010 96pp Colour photos with captions. Library stamp on title page Spine marking. o/w VG £8 Hussey. The Chester Mystery Plays; 16 pageant plays from the Chester Craft Cycle.1957 160pp In a dustwrapper & protective sleeve. Bears a libraryu’s stamps on title page, Dewey mark on spine& tiocket pocket on paste-down. £6

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Hutton Rev . A Tribute of Song, being thoughts & feelings expressed in verse. 1841 100pp Bears a library’s stamps & bookplate. Dewey mark on spine. A label has been removed from the rear paste-down o/w VG £30^ Iredale. The rise & fall of the Marshalls of Northwich, salt producers; a saga of the industrial era in Cheshire 1720-1917 91965) Offprint pamphlet 22pp VG £5 Irvine, Notes on the Parish Churches of Wirral, 1895, 30pp PENB illus £15 -do- -do- bound in vellum. Library stamps on title page. . Dewey mark bottom of front cover. Some pages loose. £10 -do- List of the Clergy in Chester Diocese 1541-2…..1896 Record Soc. Rebound 45pp £10 -do- Marriage Licences granted within the Archdeaconry of Chester in the Diocese of Chester. Vol 5 (Record Society Vol 65 1912) 284pp A society’s bookplate & stamp o/w VG £10 -do- A History of Winnington Hall (ICI Ltd) Booklet 48pp Illus.; ex-library £5 Ives. Court & County Palatine in the reign of Henry V111; the career of William Brereton of Malpas 1972 Offprint pamphler 38pp VG £5 Jeuda. Rudyard Lake Golf Club 1906-26 (1993) A4 laminated pbk 68pp Illus. Library stamp on title page and on spine. o/w VG £8. Joy Traction Engines in the North. 1970 Dalesman. Pbk 96pp |Illus VG £5 Kellie, Some Soldier Sketches 1925 Pbk 70pp dedication on top of title page from author, serving in 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment £15* -do-, Memories & Musings 1926 Pbk 78pp Author serving in 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment £15 Kelly’s Tradefinder of Chester 1973. Handbook Pages numbered 466-552. VG £8 Kelsey. Cheshire ; Oxford County History series. 1911 224pp Illus Indexed. . Bound in cloth by a library whose stamp it bears. £6 Kendrick. A short history of Altrincham Grammar School for Girls 1910-74 52pp + photo plates VG £10 Kennedy. Davenham Schools ; a short history 1990 Stapled pbk. Library stamp on title page. Inscription from author on obverse of front cover, o/w VG £5 Kirby. Trafford Tramways 2003. 4to Pbk. 64pp many b/w photos. VG £10* King Daniel..A description, historical & geographical of the county palatine of Chester……..The Vale Royal of England…(lengthy title page) 1656. Recently rebound in red cloth with a decorative spine. Fuller description on request. VG £1,500 Kriens Edward. The Tyrants Choice and Kossuth ; Two poems on the war 1856. Card covers. The spoine is missing. Bears a library’s stamps and bookplate., also Dewey marks taped to the spine. Needs a binder’s attention. Chester resident £10* Lancaster Nathaniel. An Essay upon Delicacy 1784/xx11pp + 77pp. The title page is missing. The book has been rebound in cloth with a leather spine by the library whose stamps & bookplate it bears. Author was a Chester rector 1725-37 £30* Langtree & Comyns. 2000Years of Building ; Chester’s Architectural Legacy . 2001 Pbk 232pp Extensively illus VG £10 Latham. Tarporley ‘ the history of a Cheshire village 1973 142pp + plates. Indexed. Stamped ‘Withdrawn from library’o/w VG Inscription from author £10* -do- Barrow ; the history of a Cheshire village 1983 149pp + plates. Indexed Stamped ‘Withdrawn from library’ o/w VG dw £10*

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-do- Vale Royal; a history of the Abbey and nearby villages in the ancient forest of Delamere 1993 151pp +~ photo plates. Indexed. Stamped ‘Withdrawn for sale’ on a preliminary page o/w VG in dustwrapper & protective cover £10 -do- Tattenhall; the history of a Cheshire village 1977 106pp + plates. Index. Map endpapers. Ex-library o/w VG in VG dustwrapper £10.. -do- Mickle Trafford. 2005 Pbk. 115pp + photo plates & maps. Bears a library’s stamp & barcode o/w VG In a protective sleeve £10 -do- The history of Church Minshull & Wettenhall 2007. 80pp + photo plates. Bear5s a library’s stamp & barcode . In a VG dustwrapper & protective sleeve £10 -do- Cuddington & Sandiway; the history of two Cheshire villages c1975. 110pp Indexed. Bound in cloth by library whose stamps it bears. Labels removed from free endpaper Dewey mark on spine. £10 Latham John. Poems, original & translated. 1836. 82pp Bound in cloth by library whose bookplate & stamps, with Dewey mark on spine, it bears. Sandbach interest. Author lived Bradwall Hall VG £30* Laughton. The church in the market place : A history of the church of St Michael & All Angels in Macclesfield c 1220-1901 (2003) Pbk 168pp Illus. In a protective sleeve. A reference library’s stamps and spine mark, o/w VG £10 Laurie. Cricketer Preferred; estate workers at Lyme Park 1898-1946. (1979) Pbk 39pp + plates Top corner of front cover missing though removal of a label £5 Lawson. North West Waterway Walks ; South of the Mersey 1990 Pbk 164pp 35 walks Library stamp on title page. Dewey mark on spine. o/w VG £5 Lawton (ed), Northwich Hundred Poll Tax 1660 & Hearth Tax 1664,(1979 Record Soc), 333pp VG £15… -do- Church Lawton Manor Court Rolls 1631-1860 (2010 Record Soc) 297pp Index. dw VG £15 Lazenby. Pleasant Pastures; the history of Wilmslow Congregational Church 1844-1946 (1946) 112pp + photo plates. In dustwrapp[er & protective sleeve. A library’sbookplate . Stamps on title page. Dewey mark on spine. £12* Lee. Social leaders & public persons; a study of cpounty government in Cheshire since 1888 (1963) 261pp Indexed. In a VG dustwrapper & protective sleeve A reference library’s label & stamps o/w VG £10 Leonard Alison. The Crest of the Dragon. 1975. 1973. 160pp Bears a reference library’s stamps and spine Dewey mark label o/w VG £6 Liverpool Geological Society. Rock around Wirral 2001 36pp stapled pamphlet Coloured photos. Bears a library’s stamps . o/w VG £5 Lock. Ashton in Old Photographs 1981. Pbk 48pp Full-page photos with captions VG £8 London & North Western Railway Co. Roll of Honour of Railwaymen who lost their lives whilst serving in the Great War. A substantial book, not paginated. New spine. Issued to the family of T Downes, an underman at Spital station. VG £75* . A Cheshire Family – Lowndes of Overton ; the sto0ry of a search 1972. 4to in sti9ff card covers 25pp + 6 pedigrees Bears a library’s bookplate & stamps on title page , o/w VG £20 Longrigg Geo. Sermons in timber & stone ; historic legends of the city of Chester. 1892. 72pp Pamphlet. Fragile cover. Library stamp £10

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-do- Droylsden in Old Photographs 1982 Landscape Pbk 44pp Photos with captions. £8 Lucas Hedley. Self-Flight, poems by. 1935. 29pp Inscription from author on title page. Bears a library’s label & stamp £15* -do- Inward Light . 1965 242pp Bears a library’s stamp, o/w VG £15* -do- As Beauty Comes. 1939. 68pp A library’s label & stamp. Inscribed by author VG £10* -do- Later Poems 1954-60 (1961) 287pp Inscribed by author, Bears a library’s stamps. In a VG dustwapper which is Cellotaped to the covers, o/w VG £15* -do- Collected Poems 1933-53 (1953) 430pp . Signed on half-title. Bears a library’s stamps & bookplate o/w VG £10 -do- See You a City. 1937. 59pp Inscribed by author. Bears a library’s stamp & bookplate o/w VG £10* -do- Truth’s Highway1968. 128pp Inscribed by author on title page. Bears a library’s stamps & bookplate. In a VG dustwrapper & protective sleeve. VG £10 -do-. Homage to Cheshire. 1960 6th Enlarged edition. 307pp Indexed. Signed by poet. A library’s stamps & bookplate, o/w VG in dw & protective sleeve. £6 (Lyme Hall) Hand-coloured engraving 1830s – North Front. 4x5” in a card mount. VG £15 (Lymm) Report of Inquiry into proposed development of land for Manchester Overspill 1958 HMSO. leaflet 20pp. library stamps £5 -do- Local History Society Newsletters . 7 issues 1971(46) to 19 76 (95) Rusty staples £20 -do- Two Local History Society reprints of articles from newsletters 1971 to 1972 and 1972-73 Rusty staples . £10 Lynch. Historical & Antiquarian Notes on Gawsworth Church near Macclesfield & the ancient mural paintings discovered in the interior of the building. 1879 4to 46pp + coloured plates. Bound in cloth by the library whose stamps and label it bears, o/w VG. £75* (Macclesfield) Bridge Street, Macclesfield (1983) A4 pbk. Illus. Some pages stuck together through damp o/w VG £5 -do- Pen Pictures of Macclesfield’s Public Men. 1907 151pp New spine and endpapers Library stamp on title page, o/w VG £25 Malcolm. Murder & Mayhem in Birkenhead 1830-1930 (c 1994.)) Pbk 96pp Illus VG £5 Male. Rural Cheshire ; Village Plan – Wincham. 196? 24pp _ folding maps. Ex-library bound in cloth with leather lettered spine. VG £20 Malmgreen. Silk Town ; industry & culture in Macclesfield 1750-1835 (1985) Pbk 259pp Indexed. Library stamps. A piece torn from top of the back cover.o/w VG £12* (Marple) The Grove Methodist Sunday School 1795-1945. Pamphlet 16pp A society’s stamp on title page o/w VG £5 Marsden. Chester Tramways 2007. Laminated boards. Not paginated. 120 photos with captions. VG. £10 -do- Disley ; the story of a village 1954 89pp + photo plates Indexed Map endpapers. ex- lib copy in dw & protective sleeve £10 -do- Myths & Legends of Chester 1986. card covers 95pp Library stamps etc. o/w VG £8 8 Massey History of Sandbach 1957 Pbk 62pp, with a 28pp Supplement pamphlet 1967 Both bear library stamps £10 McInniss. Birkenhead Park 1984 Stapled pbk. 61pp Illus. A library’s stamp on title page. Top corner of title page cut off, o/w VG £5

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-do- Birkenhead Priory 1983. Stapled pbk 72pp Illus. Bears a library’s stamps & spine label. o/w VG £5 McIntyre, Birkenhead Yesterday & Today, 1948, 100pp illus, map, dw £10 McKenna & Nunn. Stockport in the mid-17th century ;1660-69. (1992) Stap[led pbk 77pp with glossary & index. VG £8 McLachlan. Warrington Academy; its history & influence 1943. Chetham Society Vol 107. 151pp + plates. Indexed. Bears label & Withdrawn stamp from an academic library. £20 (Macclesfield) A 1759 legal document on two large vellum sheets re a mortgage for £150 -do-for land & buildings at Chorley. Joseph CLARKE TO Henry BURGES. Sealed & signed by CLARKE £30 MacGregor The Licensees of the Public Houses of Vale Royal 1990 A4 card covers with plastic spiral spine. Ex-library but VG 65pp £15 Mason. Excavations at Chester; 26-42 Lower Bridge Street 1974-6; The Dark Age & Saxon periods. 1985 A4 Pbk 72pp Extensively illus. A short inscription on title page. o/w VG Matthews et al. Excavations at Chester; the evolution of the heart of the city – Investigations at 3-15 Eastgate Street 1990-91 (1995). A4 Pbk. Illus VG £8 May, On the Altar & Other Relics found during recent excavations, Roman Station at Wilderspool, 1895-96, 28pp PENB, plates £5 Maund. Mersey Ferries Vol 1 – Woodside to Eastham 1991 A4 Laminated boards 192pp Profusely illustrated VGT £10* Mayor. Cheshire Congregationalism; a brief history 1956. Pbk 102pp + plates. £10 McCarren Mary. ‘A Mine of Gold’ ; a celebration of 150years in the service of Catholic Education on the Wirral by the Sisters, Faithful Companions of Jesus. 1849-1999. Folio Pbk. 141pp + Index. A library’s stamps on title page and its Dewey mark taped to the spine o/w VG £20* McIntyre. Birkenhead Yesterday & Today. 1948 99pp Illus Map endpapers. Library stamp on title page o/w VG £10 Meadows & Radcliffe, Cheshire: a portrait in colour, 1993, 79pp colour plates dw VG £5 Mersey & Weaver River Authority. First Periodical Survey, July 1969 A4 284pp + 8 folding maps in pocket. Ex-library. The free wndpaper has been removed, leaving the book shaky, o/w VG £15. Merseyside Railway History Group. The Hooton to West Kirby Branch Line & the Wirral Way. 1982. A4 pbk 32pp Extensively illus. VG £5 Middleton. Old Godley; Historical, Descriptive, Biographical, Legendary 1900 – Reprint 1971 Edition of 500. A small inscription on the endpaper inked out. o/w VG in dw. £10 -do- Annals of Hyde & District….& the surrounding townships. 1899.limp cloth 350pp Illus. The spine is discoloured and title illegible, though the title is also on the front board. o/w VG £90 -do- A history of Hyde Chapel, chiefly from the materials and reminiscences of John Thornely. 1908 154pp + plates. Bears a library’s stamps. Dewey mark on spine. Worn at top of spine. Inscription on free endpaper by John Thornely. £30 -do- History of Hyde & its neighbourhood. 1932 579pp + Charter photos. Recently rebound in green cloth by the library whose stamps& barcode it bears. VG £75. * Milligan. Runcorn & Widnes Industrial Co-operative Society Jubilee History; 1864-1912 172pp + photo plates & Statistical history VG £20*.. Mitchelson Old Bebington; a portrait in old picture postcards.1991 Pbk 94pp ex-library £6

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Mitford Nancy (ed) The Ladies of Alderley; beingthe letters betrweenMaria Josepha, Lady Stanley ofAlderley and her daughter-in-law Henbrietta Maria Stanley 1841-50 (1967) 257pp + plates, Indexed. ex-library o/w VG in dustwrapper & protective sleeve £15* (Mond Ludwig) ‘Mondiana’ a collection of essays, photos, pedigrees& letters put together into book form by an unidentified person, perhaps a librarian. Undated, but post- 1952. In a cloth folder, the text has been typed. 147pp Bears a library’s stamps and small label on the spine indicating it was for use in the Reference section. £30.. Morant. Cheshire Churches; a guide to the ancient parish churches of the county, 1066 to 1820 (1989) Pbk 205pp Illus Library stamp on title page, o/w VG £6.. -do-.. Monsatic & Collegiate Cheshire 1996. 222pp Illus. Indexed. 2 library stamps, o/w VG in a repaired dw. £10 (Moreton) Pamphlet published on the centenary, 1963, of the centenary of Christ Church. 16pp £5 Morgan(ed) Domesday Book ; Cheshire including Lancashire, Cumbria & N Wales. 1978 Not paginated. In linen covers. Pub by Phillimore. VG £10.. Morrill. The Cheshire Grand Jury 1625-59 (1976) Stapled pamphlet 60pp Bears a Reference library’s stamps etc o/w VG £5 Moss. Pilgrimages in Cheshire & Shropshire 1901 – Reprint 1972. 283pp + photo plates. Indexed. In a dustwrapper & protective sleeve. Bears a library’s stamps, remains of a label and Dewey labels on spine., o/w VG £15 -do- A history of the old parish of Cheadle 1894 -1970 reprint by Morten. Bears a reference library’s stamps & bookplate, with Dewey mark on spine. In a VG dustwrapper & protective sleeve. £24 (Nantwich) Engraving c1784 –Prospect of Nantwich (St Mary’s) by Lodge 5x9” £10 Naylor R & J. From John o’Groat’s to Land’s End, or, 1372 miles on foot: a book of days & chronicle of adventures by two pedestrians on tour. 1916. Two brothers, Robert & John, take 9 weeks to complete the walk. John lived at Beeston Castle. A signature with the final photograph may be John’s, after the printing of the book. Some wear to corner & front hinge £20* Neilson, 'Auld Lang Syne': Recollections & rural records of old Claughton, Birkenhead & Bidston with other reminiscences, 1935, 296pp illus VG £40 Nelder. Chester’s Climate; past & present 1985 48pp Laminated boards . Bears a library’s stamps & spine mark. £8 (New Mills) Parish Church Magazine. 1950. 12 issues bound together. Vicar was Rev Leslie Weatherhead. Includes extracts from parish registers & local adverts. One page missing. o/w VG £15 Newstead. The Roman Cemetery in the Infirmary Field, Chester Pt 1 . Undated offprint from a learned archaeological journal, bound in cloth by library whose stamp it bears. 46pp + photo plates and folding plan. £10 Newton Alan. Flora of Cheshire. 19171. 258pp + photo plates. Indexed. Library stamps on title page Label removed from free endpaper o/w VG in dustwrapper & protective sleeve. £6 * Nicholls Chester . (Britain in old photographs series) Pbk160pp Photos with captions. Library stamp on Free endpaper o/w VG £8

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Nickson, Bygone Altrincham: Traditions and History, 1935- reprint 1971 , 324pp & folding map, 64 illus, indexed VG £15 North of England Zoological Society. The Mersey Barrage; the Proceedings of the Mersey Barrage Symposium, 4.3.1989 A4 Pbk 142pp Ex-library but VG £10 Nulty. Shavington; the story of a South Cheshire village. 1959. Stapled pamphlet 67pp + folding tithe map 1839 Illus Library stamp on title page £10 O’Brien Warrington Academy 1757-86;its predecessors & successors 1989. 164pp Index. Illus dw VG £15 Ogden. A History of Stockport Breweries 1987 A4 pbk Illusd 38pp VG £8 -do- Assessed taxation in Ashton-upon-Mersey in 1820-21 1951 Offprint pamphlet 23pp Bears a library’s bookplate & stamp (Orford Hall) Engraving 1830s(?) by Griffith 5x9” £10 Ormerod. History of the county palatine & city of Chester :- Macclesfield Hundred. 1882 – Reprint 1980. Folio size 349pp. VG in a VG dw. £25 Parker. The Medieval Architecture of Chester 1858 40pp + engraved plates.Bound with it is Grosvenor An historical account of the collegiate church of St John the Baptist, Chester. Many engravings. Library stamp on title page Sometime rebound in cloth by library whose stamps & bookplate it bears.Signature of Thomas Hughes on a preliminary page £20 Parry Frederick. The Sacred Day; a poem 1838 . 12mo bound in cloth by the library whose stamps and bookplate it bears.Author was a catholic priest in Chester £12 Pearson. Newton & Parkgate. 1985 Stapled pbk . 80pp Illus £8 Pedigree Charts on paper (a) Couthurst of Couthurst & Ashton-under-Lyne, 1876, 16" x 11 (b) Earle of Alperton, 1876, 16" x 11" Each £5 Pennington. William Wood’s Diary; a story of 19th—century emigration on board the SS Constance in 1852. (2002) 333pp + plates. Indexed. A library’s stamp on a preliminary page, o/w VG. Macclesfield man’s diary £10 Pepler (ed) The Diaries of William Lloyd Holden, 1829 & 1830. Record Society Vol 155 2018. 291pp Indexed. Mint in dw. £20 Phillimore & Co. Cheshire Parish Registers a) Marriages Vol 5 edited by Choice 1914 One of 150 copies New endpapers 122pp b) Marriages Vol 3 – Prestbury Pt 2 1911 150pp One of 150 copies New endpapers c) Marriages Vol 2 – Prestbury Pt 2 New endpapers & spine. ……………………………………………………….Each £30 Phillips A short history of The Queen’s School, Chester 1878-1978 (1978 Stapled pbk 90pp Ilus Library stamp on title page £5.. Phillips & Smith, a) Stockport Probate Records 1578-1619 (1985 Record Soc) 151pp Index dw VG Pixton. Wrenbury Wills & Inventories 1532-1661. Record Society Vol 144 2009. 562pp Indexed. . A library’s stamp on front endpaper, o/w VG in dw £30 Place. The Rise & Fall of Parkgate, passenger port for Ireland 1686-1815 (1994 Chetham Society) 294pp Indexed. A society’s stamps on the endpapers o/w VG in dw £10 Plant & Plant. Chelford & its neigthbours. 2001 Pbk.348pp In a protective sleeve. Bears a library’s stam,p and spine label o/w VG £12* -do- Chelford;’ a Cheshire village. 1999 Pbk 325pp A library’s stamps on title page & Dewey mark on spine. In a protective sleeve. o/w VG £10

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Platt. The history & antiquities of Nantwich 1818. 128pp Recently rebound i9n maroon cloth. Bears a library’s stamps on title page & others, o/w VG £45* (Pott Shrigley) Green Close Methodist Church Centenary Handbook 1861-1961 . 36pp Bears a library’s stamp and bookplate. o/w VG £5 Pound. The Ghosts of Wrenbury. n.d. ( 199?) SDtapled pbk 64pp Library stamp on title page, o/w VG £6 Powell. The Chester Bible Plays , their origin and effects on England’s story 1327-1820 ( 1920) Second edn, revised & enlarged. 80pp Bound in cloth by library whose stamps it bears. £8 Powicke, History of Cheshire County Union of Cong. Churches, 1907, 321pp index new eps £40 Pryor. Looking back at Timperley. 1982. Landscape pbk. 48pp Photos with captions Library stamps inside front cover o/w VG £8 Pullan & Burnley Set Upon a Hill: the story of St Mary’s Church & Parish, Upton, Wirral 1993 Pbk. 159pp Illus. Top corner cut from title page o/w VG £8 Pye. Wilmslow & Alderley Edge; Photographic memories 2004 Frith. 91pp dw VG £10 Quin. Knutsford: The Changing Years 1950 to 1970 . undated pbnk. 105pp Signature on title page o/w VG £8 Radcliffe (illustrator), The Mersey at Work - Ferries, 1982, 32pp A4 pbk £5 Randall. The Search for Old Wirral ; a historical guide toWirral’s buildings & sites from Roman times to the Civil War . 2003 Pbk 193pp Extensively illus Index. Slight tear at top of spine/front cover. o/w VG £6 -do- -do- Hardback 1993. Ex-library in VG dw with protective sleeve £8 Rathbone. Dane Valley Story. 1974 Pbk 70pp Illus. ex-library (?) VG £5 -do- Goyt Valley Story 1974. Stapled pbk 72pp Illus. Library stamps. o/w VG £6.. Reader. Imperial Chemical Industries Vol 2 : the first quarter century – 1926-52 (1975) 569pp + plates. Illus Indexed. From a college library in a VG dustwrapper & protective sleeve. £20* Record Society of Lancashire & Cheshire Volume 12 1885. 5 essays including Homage Roll of Warrington 1491-1516 39pp edited by Beamont ;296pp ex-library £20.. Redhead & Gooddie. The Summers of Shotton 1987. 160pp Indexed. Illus. Map endpapers. dw VG £10. Reid (ed) . Cheadle in 1851 ; a descriptive history based on the census & Stockport Advertiser 1979. A4 pbk. Spiral spine. 70pp Illus VG £10 Renaud, Contributions towards a History of the Ancient Parish of Prestbury, 1876, 244pp New endpapers Some wear at spine ends and corners. £80. Richards . The Manor of Gawsworth 1974 334pp + appendix notes, bibliography, index, plates. dw VG £30 -do- Old Cheshire Chur; a survey of theirhistory, fabric & furniture wit records ofte older monuments. …….1973 Revised & Enlarged edition. 905pp + photo plates & folding map. New endpapers. Bears a library’s stamps on title page o/w VG £40.. Richardson. Hooton Park; a thousand years of history 1993. Stapled pbk 46pp Ilus. Bears a library7’s stamps etc. Not loaned. Aviation interest £8 Ridgway, Chester Goldsmiths from Early Times to 1726 198pp Index VG in torn dw £20 do- A Pictorial; History of Pickmere 1860-1993. A4 pbk 58pp Library stamp o/w VG £5

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Rigby Charles. Philip Godlee by his friends. 1954. 84pp + photo plates. An inscription in ink on the front paste-down. On the free endpap[er are two library stamps and a paper label telling about Godlee. Title faded from spine. Worn at top spine. £10* Robinson. Chester Society of Natural Science, Literature & Art; the first hundred years 1871-1971 . Stapled pamphlet 51pp Bears a library’sstamps & Dewey label. £5 Robson. Some aspects of education in Cheshire in the 18th century. 1966 Chetham Society235pp + folding plates. Indexed. Library stamps o/w VG £10 Rochester (ed) The Weaver Watermen – TS Lightfoot. Pbk undated. 82pp Illus. Stamped ‘withdrawn from library’ o/w VG £8 Rose. The Crewe Locomotives of the L&NWR 1845-58 . undated booklet pbk. 42pp VG £10 Runcorn Urban Renewal Working Group.. Final Report 1973(?) 63pptyped + several folding maps. A4 size, bound in laminated boards by a librarywhose stamp and spine marking it bears. . ‘Strictly Confidential’ £20 Sainter. The Jottings of some geological,archaeological, botanical, ornithological and zoological rambles round Macclesfield. 1878. 157pp + plates. Indexed. Bound in cloth by a library whose stamps , bookplate and spine marks it bears. Likely never issued. – VG £30* Sanders (ed) The parish registers of Eastham fro9m AD 1598 to 1700 (1891) 187pp Indexed. One of 100 copies. Bears a library’s staampson title page. None on endpapers Recently bound in red cloth with title and Dewey mark on spine. VG £60* Shercliff. Nature’s Joys are free for all ; a history of countryside recreation in NE Cheshire 1987 4to Pbk 131pp Many b/w photos. Bears a reference library’s stamps o/w VG £6 Shercliff, Kitching & Ryan. Poynton; a coalmining village. A4 Pbk bound into maroon cloth with title on front cover. 80pp. Illus. Library stamp on cover card cver5& obverse. £10 Short. Cheadle ; the second edition. 1999 Images of England series. Pbk 128pp Photos with captions. VG £8 Shrewsbury Diocese Year Book 1965. Pbk Spiral binding. Ex-library 205pp £5 -do- Centenary Record 1951 Stapled brochure 100pp Bears a library’s stamps and Dewey mark on spine. Much Cheshire interest £10 Siddall. The Formation of the Chester Society of Natural Science ,Literature & Art & An Epitome of its Subsequent History. 1911. Pbk 63pp + photo plates. £10 Simpson, The City Guilds of Chester, PENBs:- each £10 (a) Skinners & Feltmakers Company, 1915; (b) The Bricklayers’ Company 1918; -do-, Chester Free Public Library, c1930, 29pp, owner’s stamp fep o/w VG £8 Slater. Cjhronicles of lives & religion in Cheshire &elsewhere. 1891. 531pp Library stampon title page. Inscription by author onobverse of frontispiece. Bound in red cloth & leather spine by library. Dewey mark on spsine. £20 Smith. Family Name & arms of the county of Cheshire . 1976 4to bound in stiff boards. 36pp + folding map. Bears a library’s stamps -do- Almost an island ; the story of Wallasey. 1991 A4 Pbk 126pp Illus Library stamp on title page. £10 -do- Peckforton; a tiny part of Cheshire 1983. Stapled pbk 55pp n Illus. Map endpapers. Library stamp on title page. Label on spine o/w VG £6 -do- Sandstone & mortar – More of old Wallasey 1992 A4 Pbk 118ppExtensively illustrated with b/w photos £10 Speake. The story of Hazel Grove & Bramhall ; a local history. `1962, A5 pbk .75pp limp cloth £8

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Speake & Witty History of Droylsden, 1953, 268pp index The folding map has been tape- repaired £40 Stanley. Memoirs of Edward & Catherine Stanley by their son. 1880. 359pp Indexed. Recently rebound. Bears a library’s stamps. £30* -- do- The Stanleys of Alderley 1927-2001; A politically incorrect story 2004. 4to pbk 192pp + photo plates., Indexed. Bears a library’s stamps on title page. o/w VG 10 Starkey. Schooner Port; two centuries of Upper MerseSail.1983. Pbk. 243pp Illus. Indexed.; Library stamps etc. o/w VG £10 -do- Old Runcorn. 1990 A4 Pbk 230pp Profusely illustrated Indexed. Library stamps on title page o/w VG £12. (Stockport) Stockport of Bygone Years: an album of pictures pictures from the Stockport Advertiser. n.d. . 40pp Pamphlet, rusty staples One per page with lengthy captions £10 -do- Official handbook 1966 , pub by Burrows & Co. 4to Limp cloth. A library’s stamp on title page and label on spine o/w VG 140pp £12 Stockport Historical Society Aspects of Church History 2003 Pbk. . Not paginated. 4 essays. VG £5 .. Sumner. On the Borderline ; the official history of Chester City FC 1885-1997. 4to 145pp+ photos & Many pages of statistics by the season. dw VG £18 Sturman. Catholicism in Chester ; a double century – St Werburgh’s and St Francis’ 1875- 1975 (1975) Pbk.108pp + an addendum stuck in at the end. Illus. A small crease on front cover, o/w VG £8 Sutton (ed) James Buckley’s Cash Book 1729-1733 ( 2017 Record Society) 210pp Indexed. Mint in dw £15*.. Swift Anne. . George Cooper ; Stockport’s last town crier 1824-95 (1974) A5 pamphlet 40pp £6 Swindells Gladys. The Strines Journal 1852-60 : an appreciation. 1972 24pp pamphlet £5 -do- History of Education in Marple 1603-1971. A4 in laminated boards. 36pp + photo plates. Library stamp & loabel o/w VG £10 Swift (ed) Victorian Chester 1996 Pbk248pp + index. VG £10* (Styal). Mill life at Styal. 1986 Pbk 48pp Photos with captions VG £5 Sylvester. A History of Cheshire. 1980 4top 127pp Illus. Indexed. Bears a library stamp on the free endpaper o/w VG £8 Tait (ed) The Domesday Survey of Cheshire…. Chetham Soc 1916 258pp & map £45 (Tarporley) Tarporley Then & Now – Photographs old & new. 2000 Pbk Edited by the Rotary Club. Photos with captions VG £5 Tatlock. English painting of the 18th-20th centuries……in the collection of the Lady Lever Art Gallery. 1928. Folio size in clcoth with an armorial device on front cover. A limited edition of 350 copies. A small library stamp on obverse of the frontispiece portrait of Lord Leverhulme. 18i7pp + p[lates. VG £70* (Tatton Hall) Engraving 1794. By Dayes & Pollard.8x12inches £5 Taylor et als. Geology of the country around Stockport & Knutsford. 1963. A library’s stamps on title page & Dewey marks on spine. 183pp + photo plates. Indexed. £10 Teape-Fugard. Let Chester Remember….1983 Stapled pbk. Illus 75pp VG Owner’s signature on title page.o/w VG £8

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Thacker. The Chester Diocesan Records and the Local Historian 1981. Offprint pamphlet 40pp VG £4.. Thomas & Whil. Old Lymm ; people & places. 1984 Landscape Pbk. 44pp photos & captions. Library stamp o/w VG £8 Tigwell. Cheshire in the 20th Century. 1985. 151pp Illus. Index . dw VG £10.. Trowsdale. The history of Hazel Grove & Bramhall 1986 corrected edition. Pbk 100pp + index. VG £8 Tunstall Beatrice. The Shiny Night 1937 Leather & marbled boards. 430pp £8 -do- Dark Lady 1939- reprint 1969. 317ppp dw. Ex-library o/w VG £6 -do- The Long Day Closes. 1934. First. 296pp ex-library. Map endpapers of Werstern Mercia. (Stockport to Shrewsbury) A trifle shaky £5 Unwin. Samnuel Oldknow & the Arkwrights ; the Industrial Revolution in Marple & Stockport. 1923 – reprint 1968 with intro by Chaloner. 260pp Index. dw VG £15* Varley, History of Stockport Grammar School, 1957 Enlarged , 346pp Indexed £25 -do-. Cheshire Before the Romans 1964. 109pp Ills Index VG £10*.. -do- A Middlewich Chartulary compiled by Wm Vernon in 17th century – Pt 1 (of 2) 1941 Chetham Soc. 217pp , many unopened. Label removed from paste-down o/w VG £20* Varley & Tait. Middlewich Chartulary….Pt 2 1944 Chetham Soc Vol 108 415pp Indexed. A bookplate has been removed from the paste-down. Small inked inscription on bottom of free endpaper, o/w VG £20* (Venables) Some Account of Gen. Robt. Venables of Antrobus & Wincham…autobiographical diary of his widow, 1871 Chetham, 28pp, portrait, newly rebound £20 -do- Chapel Into Church: how Denton Chapel became St Lawrence’s Church (1973) 155pp Illus. Indexed. Signed by author VG £12 Vickers. Chester Football Club Ltd celebrates 50yrs of league football 1931-81: a statistical history of the first 50years…… A4 pbk 64pp VG £10* Vickers Raymond L. Industrial relations in South Cheshire 1840-80 (1986) A typed thesis for an MA degree (?) A4 65pp bound in cloth. Mostly concerns shoe-making in Nantwich. VG £30* (Wallasey) Acts of Parliament & Provisional Orders relating to Wallasey 1809-99 (1899) 411pp + 52pp Index. Newly rebound. Bears a library’s stamps. £70 Warburton Norman. Warburton; the village and the family.1970. 4to red cloth with arms on front cover. Library stamps on title page & half-title o/w VG 204pp + plates & folding pedigree chart. In VG dustwrapper £90* Wark. Elizabethan Recusancy in Cheshire 1971 Chetham Society Vol 19. 200pp + folding map Library stamps but labels removed o/w VG £12 (Warrington) Bold St Methodist Church 1850-1950 Souvenir handbook Stapled pamphlet 36pp |Illus Library stamp o/w VG £10 -do- ‘Overbridge in lieu of Wilderspool Level Crossing’- 1954. A form and conditions of tender & contract specifications & bill of quantities. The contract has 2808 clauses, It appears to be the copy completed and submitted to the Corporation by Harry Fairclough Ltd. There are several sections to the document, making it difficult to state pagination. It is a heavy item. £40 -do- Boteler’s Grammar School 1526-1926. Card covers 56pp. VG £10

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-do- Wilderspool Bridge – Opening ceremony pamphlet 16.5.1957 8pp Illus A corner of the front cover has been cut off. o/w VG £5 -do- Official Handbook 1963 pub. Bu8rrows,180pp + plates £8 -do- The Secondary School – Building a Heritage, 1928. Pb52pp + plates. Stapled. No formal title page. Short tear on front cover o/w VG £10 -do- Warrington & District Schools Cricket Assoc Handbook 1950. Pamphlet 22pp VG £5 -do- Warrington Rural District Official Guide 64pp + folding map VG £8 -do- Warrington & District Guide & Year Book 1977. Stapled pbk 132pp + folding map £8 -do- . Parish of Poulton with Fearnhead Coronation Souvenir 1953. Stapled pbk 72pp Illus. VG £10 -do- Penketh Old Scholars Association Annual Report 1935 & 1936. Pamphlet 24pp. Rusty staples.(Penketh Friends School) £10 -do- New Town Outline Plan 1972. A4 Pbk. 94pp pub by New Town Development Corpn Bears a ;library’s stamps. Illus £20 Warrington Archaeological & Historical Soc. Millennium Scrapbook of Warrington. 2000. Pbk 128pp Illus. An inscription on inside front cover, o/w VG £8 Warrington Guardian Year Book 1950 168pp + index & folding map. Spine has been tape- repaired but now back cover is loose and needs repair £5 -do- -do- 1952….1956….1957…1958…1959 (8) £40 Westall. Wilmslow & Alderley Edge, Quarry Bank Mill & Manchester Airport 1994. 196 b/w photos with captions dw VG £10 -do- Stockport; a pictorial history 1988 Extensively illus. An inscription on the title page Westbrook. Stockton Heath & Immediate District . 1929 131pp + plates Newly rebound VG £100 Whimperley. The Barons of Halton. With an account of their castle & successors) 1986 Stapled pbk.36pp Illus. Bears a library’s stamp & barcode. £5 Whiston, A History of Methodism in Langley, a Cheshire village 2003 Pbk Illus VG £6.. Whitaker. A descriptive list of the printed maps of Cheshire 1577-1900. Chetham Soc Vol 106 1942 220pp Indexed. Occcasional; illustratins. Ex-library with occasional stamps but labels removed. Some wear to spine ends. £60* Whittle (ed) Waverton; a history of its people & places. 2002 Pbk 211pp Ilus. Library stamp on the title page, o/w VG £10 White Worcestershire Salt; history of Stoke Prior Salt Works 1996. Pbk 88pp VG £5* Wilbraham Frances M. The Queen’s Badge (undated, possibly pirated edition) Owner’s signature, 1926, on f.ep. Fiction, Cheshire author. £10 -do- The Ladye Shakerley 1870. 315pp Rebound in red cloth by a library whose label it bears £10* Willan. The Navigation of the River Weaver in the 18th Century 1951 Chetham Soc Vol 3 235pp +plates & folding map. VG £90* (Wilmslow) UDC. Official Guide 1967 pamphlet 52pp + folding map VG £5 -do- Two legal documents on paper dated 1869 and 1790.Each two large sheetsopf 4 pages, handwritten. Bearing signatures and seals. –Release of mortgages of messuages in Wilmslow . Jonathan BRETTARGH & George JOHNSON to Ralph BOWER £50 Wilson (ed) Chester Customs Accounts 1301-1566 (1969 Record Society Vol 111) 172pp VG £10..

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Williams. Chester & the Northern Marches. 1968. 146pp Illus Indexed. Recently rebound Bears a library’s stamps on title page & free endpaper, o/w VG £10 Wilmslow Historical Society. Three Sundays in Wilmslow 1851-71 (1981 ) Stapled pbk. 66pp VG £5 -do-. The Fourth Sunday in Wilmslow, 1881 (1997) Stapled pbk 53pp VG £5 -do- Victorian Handforth ; Information taken from the census returns of 1851,1861,1871. 1990) A4 pamphlet with plastic spine.40pp VG £5 -do-. The Wilmslow of Yesterday. 1970. Stapled pbk.37pp £5 (Winsford) Expansion of Winsford – Consultants’ Master Plan (Shankland Cox& Associates ) 1967. Folio Not paginated. Bound in cloth by library whose label it bears VG £20 Winsford Local History Soc. Vale Royal Abbey & House. 1977. Pbk in a plastic spine. Bears a library’s Withdrawn stamp on the title page, o/w VG 50pp Illus £10* Winsford UDC. Official Guide c1971. 56pp + folding map. Bears a library’s stamps, o/w VG £6 Women’s Institutes. Cheshire Village Memories. 1952 128pp + photo plates. Bears a library’s stamps & Dewey label on spine. £8 -do- -do- –Vol 2 . 1961 108pp + plates. Map endpapers . Library stamps etc £8 Woods, Further Notes on the Penkett Family, 1925, 20pp PENB, plates, pedigree £15 -do- Legends & Traditions of Cheshire. 1983 In a VG dustwrapper & protective sleeve. 92pp Illus. A library’s stamp on title page, Dewey label on spine, barcode on free endpaper o/w VG £10 Wright & Richmond, Catalogue of the Roman inscribed & sculptured stones in the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, 1955, 68pp + 47 plates £20 Wright- (edited by Symes) From Corncrake to Combine : memoirs of a Cheshire farmer 2008 Tempus. Pbk 160pp Illus VG £5 Yarwood. Outrages, Fatal & Other; a chronicle of Cheshire Crime 1612-1912(1991) Pbk 234pp + photo plates. Indexed. Bears a Reference library’s stamps & spine label. £6.. Young & Young. Pictures from the past ; Collection No 3 of old photographs of Bromborough, Burton,Eastham, Heswall, Neston, Ness Mine, Parkgate & Willaston 72pp Extensively illus. Library stamp on first page. o/w VG £10

General Interest Books: counties adjacent to Cheshire & subjects likely to interest customers.

Abell. Transport & Industry in Greater Manchester 1978. A5 Pbk Illus £5 Allen, The Early Christian Monuments of Lancashire & Cheshire 1893 PENB 32pp & 18plates £15 Alpert & Lesley The Role of Public Transport in New Towns: a bibliography & research guide with special reference to Runcorn, Skelmersdale & Telford 1979 Pbk 476pp Ex-Library (never issued) £10* Andrews, Don't Fret, My Lad, 1987 70pp A5 pbk (Ashton-u-Lyne ) £5 Anstey & Hair (eds), Liverpool, the African Slave Trade & Abolition, 1976 Historic Society of Lancs & Cheshire, 244pp, index, dw, VG £25..*

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Armitage Chantrey Land; being an account of the North Derbyshire village of Norton 1910- reprint 1998 461pp Illus dw VG £10 Axon (ed) Oliver Heywood’s ‘Life of John Angier of Denton’ together with Angier’s diary & extracts from his ‘an helpe to better hearts’, also Samuel Angier’s diary. ( 1937 Chetham Soc Vol 97. 178pp Index. A small blind stamp on title page. o/w VG £30 Barclay, The Inner Life of the Religious Societies of the Commonwealth 1876 700pp Newly rebound £40 Bardsley. A Dictionary of English& Welsh Surnames,with special Ameriocan instances.. 1901 – reprint 1980.837pp owner’s label on paste-down. £15* Beamont. A History of Latchford. 1889 245pp Recently rebound in maroon cloth by a library whose stamps & bookplate it bears, o/w VG £90* Berriman. Historical Metrology: a new analysis of the archaeological & historical evidence relating to weights & measures 1953 224pp Illus Indexed. dw £20* Booker. A history of the ancient chapels of Didsbury & Chorlton. 1857 Chetham Soc. 337pp + plates. Newly rebound in maroon cloth/. Occasional library stamps, VG £30 -do- A history of the ancien5t chapel of Birch….a sketch of the township of Rusholme….1859 Chetham Soc. Vol 47 253pp + plates & folding pedigrees ( Birch & Worsley of Platt) Smal blind stamp on title page. An owner’s signature on free endpaper. Worn at spine ends £50* Boscow. Warrngton ; a heritage. 1947 96pp + photo plates. Library stamps on titloe page. Inscription rom author on free endpaper, o/w VG £12 Bowman, England in Ashton-u-Lyne 1960 710pp & plates & maps Index . VG £120 -do- 5,000 Acres of Old Ashton. 195? British Association. Manchester & Its region; a report for the Manchester meeting 1962. 265pp + 29 photo plates. Covers N Cheshire & Lancashire. dw VG £10 Brown. Most Splendid of Men; Life in a (Staffs) Mining Community 1917-25.186pp + plates. dw VG £5 Buckley Stella, John Buckley 1865-1944: learner, teacher, friend, 1946 Kendal, 139pp + portrait, born Adlington (Chorley) Taught at Sheffield, Wigan £30 Burney, Mrs Linnaeus Banks, author of 'The Manchester Man', 1969, 167pp index, repaired dw VG £10 Cameron. The Place-Names of Derbyshire 1959 3 vols. Vols 1 & 2 have a society’s stamp and a library label on the endpapers , o/w VG./ Vol 3 is ex-library with stamps on endpapers in a dw (3) £40* Catt. Northern Hiring Fairs. 1986 Pbk 64pp Illus VG £10 Chaloner, Palatinate Studies: chapters in the social & industrial history of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1992 Chetham Society .5 Cheshire-interest essays. 198pp illus index, 8 engravings, VG £8 Chappell Island Lifeline: Isle of Man Steam Packet Co Ltd 1830-1980. 173pp Illus. dw VG £10 Chester Society of Natural Science, Literature & Art.. Report & Proceedings Dec 1947 – Robert Newstead Memorial Number. 103pp + plates Label on paste-down. VG £5

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(Chetham Society) Chetham Miscellanies 4thVol. Chetham Society 1872 Vol 83. Essays on Gen Robert Venables of Antrobus & Wicham; Forme of Confession grounded upon the ancient catholique & apostolique faith by Lady Bridget Egerton ; A calendar of gents who have paid money to Sir Hugh Cholmondley within the county of Chester ; History of Warrington Priory. Library stamps. Top corner of free endpaper cut off, o/w VG £20 (-do-) I have other Chetham Miscellanies - enquire. (Congleton) Official Guide 1983(?) 70pp + folding map. A library’s stamp on page 1 and title page. o/w VG £6 Clarkson The Pre-Industrial Economy in England, 1500-1750 (1971) 268pp Library stamp on title page, o/w VG in dw. £5.. Clarkson & fenton. Feilden’s Mersey; a selection of the post-war ship photographs of Basil Feilden. 2001. Landscape pbk. 80pp Photos with informative captions. £8 Clwyd Family History Society . Holywell Parish Registers - Baptisms 1793-1812. (1992 reprint) A4 pbk 84pp + index VG £10 Coppack A lifetime with ships.; the autobiography of a coasting shipowner 1973. 218pp + plates. ex-library in a dustwrapper &protective sleeve. £10 Croston Nooks & Corners of Lancashire & Cheshire 1882 – reprint 1975. 241pp Illus dw VG £10.. Crowe. Warrington Ancient & Modern; a history of the town & neighbourhood. 1947.219pp + index. A library’s stamp on the title page. £20* Davies Liiverpool Seen: Post-war artists on Merseyside, 1992, 223pp index, dw VG £10 Dick. A Hundred Years of Alkali in Cheshire 1973 Pbk Illus 125pp £10 -do- -do- Sometime rebound in cloth with title on spine & front cover. Bears a reference library’s stamps on title page but no labels. VG £15 Dickinson The Lordship of Man under the Stanleys: government & economy in the Isle of Man 1580-1704, 1996 Chetham Soc. , 396pp dw VG £10* -do- (ed) Index to Wills & Administrations formerly preserved in the Probate Registry, Chester 1831-33. (1978 Record Society Vol 118) 165pp Indexed VG £10… -do- –do- ,1826-30 ( Record Soc Vol 113). Owner’s label on paste-down o/w VG £10. -do- -do-, 1834-37 Record Society Vol 120 1980. 219pp £10... -do- Misericords in the North West of England. 2009 Pbk 125pp Illus Indexed VG (Chester, Nantwich ) £5 Earwaker. An Index to the wills & Inventories now preserved in the Court of Probate at Chester from 1545 to 1760. 5 volumes rebound in brown cloth.pub Record Society 1879-1892. They bear a society’s bookplate . Volume one has letters to Earwaker bound into it and some press cuttings/reviews. The set has blank pages interleaved, and has been extensively annotated, perhaps by Earwaker. They cover both Lancashire & Cheshire and also cover ‘Infra’ wills. £140 -do- -do- Vol 4 1881. Covers 1621-50 ex-library 303pp £10 -do- An Index to the wills & inventories now preserved in the Court of Probate at Chester 1660-80…..Record Society Vol 15, 380pp VG £10 -do- The history of the ancient parish of Sandbach…(1890 – reprint 1972) 316pp Illus Index. New endpapers. A society’s stamp on the half-title.,o/w VG £50* -do- Local Gleanings: an archaeological & historical magazine. Vol 1 ( all published) July 1879 to June 1880 480pp Ccontents page but no index. Much genealogy VG £35*

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-do- Lancashire & Cheshire wills & inventories at Chester……1884 Chetham Soc Vol 3. Piece missing from top spine, o/w VG. Gilt missing from spine. 262pp, many unopened. Indexed. A bookplate removed from the paste-down. Top corner of free endpaper cut off £20* Edwards. Vikings in North West England ; the Artifacts ; 1998 Pbk. 110pp Illus Indexed VG £8 Elsam, Mann & Cooper. Looking Back; Liverpool & New Brighton photographed by….1994 Landccape Pbk. 48pp Full-page b/w photos. VG £8 Few. Coffers,Clysters Comfrey and Coifs ; the lives of our 17th Century ancestors 2012 Pbk 136pp Illuis Index VG £8 Fishwick. A Calendar of Lancashire & Cheshire Exchequer Depositions by Commission from 1558 to 1702. Record Society Vol 11 1885. 216pp, many unopened. New endpapers. A library’s stamps on title page o/w VG New spine. £20 Field. English Field-Names 1972. Ex-ibrary The front free endpaper has been removed, o/w VG £5 Fitton & Wadsworth, The Strutts & the Arkwrights 1758-1830; a study of the early factory system 1958 361pp + plates & folding map. Index New endpapers £25 Frangolupo Tradition in Action: The historical evolution of the Greater Manchester County. 1977. 306pp Illus. Indexed Map endpapers dw VG £8.. -do- Rich Inheritance; a guide to history of Manchester 1962 322pp + plates. dw VG £10 Freeman, Rodgers & Kinvig. Lancashire, Cheshire & the Isle of Man. 1966 308pp + photo plates. Indexed. Regions of the British Isles series. VG in a VG dustwrapper £6 (Frodsham) Official Guide 1949 Stapled 28pp + folding plan VG £8 -do- -do- 1960 Stapled 28pp + folding plan. VG £8 Gandy. Catholic Missions & registers 1700-1800: Vol 5 – North West England 1993. Pbk 69pp Owner’s small stamp on title page, o/w VG £5 Glover & Andrew, History of Ashton-u-Lyne & District, 1884, 373pp + local notes 45pp + index, illus, new eps, calf half bound, raised bands, top edge gilt, library stamp and spine mark . Some wear at corners and outer spine joints. Bound with it are 46pp of ‘’Notes Local & Historical ‘ ’ £130* Green. The Flora of the Liverpool District. 1933. 163pp + plates. Ex-library o/w VG £5 Guscott, Humphrey Chetham 1580-1653: fortune, politics & mercantile culture in 17th century England. 2003 Chetham Soc, 324pp index dw VG £10 Hampson & Croskery, The Greater Manchester Quiz Book 199? Pbk Over 1500 Qs & As £5 Hardie, History of the Chemical Industry in Widnes 1950 250pp & plates Index New eps Some corner wear o/w VG £25 Hardie & Pratt. A History of the Modern British Chemical Industry 1966. 380pp + folding chart. Illus Index ex-library copy £5 Hesketh, Trams in the NW, 1995, 128pp lam boards, many illus £15 Heywood (ed), The Diary of Rev Henry Newcome 1661-3 (1849 Chetham ) new eps 242pp Indexed £25 -do-, Cardinal Allen’s Defence of Sir William Stanley’s Surrender of Deventer, 1586 (1851 Chetham Soc) Library binding, stamps, label £20 Hill Sam., Foirewood: splinters an’ shavings fro’ a carpenter’s bench, 1902, 317pp, dialect rhymes, Stalybridge poet, Subscribers’ Edition. £25

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-do-, Little Spadger’s Dog & other Lancashire Dialect Sketches 1906 110pp & Subscribers List . Library numbers on spine £15 Hodgson. History of Penketh School 1834-1907 274pp & plates. Indexed. Includes list of pupils and staff. Withdrawn library copy. New spine & endpapers £50 Holdsworth. The Handy Book of Parish Law. 1995 Pbk. 112pp A library’s stamp on title page, o/w VG £6 Howarth Ken. Dark Days: Memories of the Lancashire & Cheshire Coalmining Industry up to Nationalisation 1985. A4 pbk 134pp Indexed VG £8.. Hughes. Port in a Storm : the air attacks on Liverpool & its Shipping in the Second World War 1993 A4 Pbk 181pp Illus Indexed. £10 Hyde. A history of public transport in Ashton-u-Lyne. 19890 Pbk. 20pp + folding map. Illus VG £10 Jolly. Lord Leverhulme. 1976. 246pp + plates Indexed. in dw & protective sleeve. Ex- library £15* Jones. A Catalogue of the Collection of tracts for & against Popery ( published in or about the reign of James 11) in the Manchester library founded by Humphrey Chetham……in 2 parts. .Chetham Society Vols 48 & 64 1859 & 1865. Worn at spine ends. Many pages unopened. Blind stamp on the title pages. Owner’s signature on free endpaper. £40* Irvine (ed) A Collection of Lancashire & Cheshire Wills not now found in any Probate Registry 1781-90. Record Society Vol 44 1902 168pp A society’s bookplate £20 -do- -do- 1791-1800 Record Society Vol 45 1902. 242pp A society’s bookplate £20 Johnson. Railways in and around the Manchester suburbs; a selective pictorial review 1989/ Large Pbk Not paginated. 250 b/w photos with captions. VG £8 Kealey. Harvesting the Air : Windmill Pioneers in 12th-century England. 1987. 307pp Illus Indexed. VG in VG dw £10 Kidd & Brindle. The Diptera of Lancashire & Cheshire. –Pt 1 (all published) 1959 136pp. Bound in cloth by library whose stamp it bears on title page . o/w VG £10 Lawler (comp) North-West theses & dissertations 1950-; a bibliography. 1981 48pp Pbk VG £5 Lawson. A check list of the fauna of Lancashire & Cheshire – Part 1 (all published) 1930 115pp. Interlaved with blank pages for notes. Bound in cloth by the library whose label it bears. o/w VG £10 Lewis. A Topograhical Dictionary of England….1844. 4 large vols, each over 670pp. Sometime rebound using the original title piece on each spine. VG £120* Lewis Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Wales. ……….(very lengthy title) 1850 4th Edition. 4to in original cloth. Worn at corners and spine, a portion of which is missing in one vol. Photos available on request. 551/474pp Internally VG, £100 -do- A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland…..(very lengthy title) 2 volumes 1849 Second edition. 4to. 695/704pp Original cloth. Worn on corners and on spine which has been repaired with Cellotape Photos available Internally VG £100 -do- A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland…….(very lengthy title) 2 volumes 1851 Second edition. 611/622pp Worn at corners and spine, which has been repaired with Cellotape. Photos available on request. £100 Littlebury Bros. The o requestiverpool, Bootle, Birkenhead & Wallasey Official Red Book for 1914. 658pp Cloth . Glue repair effected to spine. ex-library copy. £45*

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Liverpool Echo. Mersey Ferry Tales. Undated A4 pbk. 82pp Many b/w photos. A library’s stamp o/w VG £6 Liverpool Nautical Research Society. A Merseyside Maritime History; 50th anniversary transactions 11 essays. Stapled pbk £5 Lyons Rev (ed) Two Compoti of the Lancashire & Cheshire manors of Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln (temp Edward 1) Chetham Society Vol 112 1884. A new spine and endpapers. VG. 200pp £40* Lysons. Magna Britannica…..The County of Cheshire. 1810/ This is Vol 2 Pt 2 of a series of county titles by Lysons. Newly rebound. Appears to lack two plates but has several others not called for. VG A fine tome £150* Manchester Grammar School A Biographical Register of Old Mancunians 1910-93/ 734pp in a torn dustwrapper. Some pages between 247-263 (1939-=41) are badly printed. o/w VG. £15* (Merseyside) Merseyside Architecture Week , July 1978. –Programme Information & Guide Book . 43to brochre 92pp pub by Merseside branch of British Architects Illus VG £8 Merseyside Archaeological Survey. Report No Bromborough Court House; a survey of the evidence. A4 stapled pamphlet in card covers 18pp VG £6 Merseyside County Council. Merseyside Structure Plan – Written Statement. 1980. Card covers in a spiral plastic spine.and a map in pocket. 180pp £20 Merseyside & N Wales Electricity Board. ‘Contact’ – Staff magazine. Vols 32 & 33 1980-81 bound together in maroon cloth. Withdrawn library stamp.o/w VG £15 Mersey Tunnel Joint Committee. The Mersey Tunnel. Undated (c1962?) Landscape format 128pp with b/w & colour phots. Library stamps on title page. Spine torn £10 Nevell. Tameside before 1066 (1992) A4 Pbk 129pp Illus. History & Archaeology VG £12.. -do- Tameside 1066-1700 (1991) A4 Pbk 155pp Illus. Indexed. History & Archaeology VG £12 -do- Tameside 1700-1930 (1993) A4 Pbk. 200pp Illus Indexed. History & Archaeology VG £12 Nevell & Walker. Lands & Lordships in Tameside 1998. A4 Pbk 110pp Illus Indexed. History & A|rchaeology. VG £12 O’Brien. Warrington Academy 1757-86; its predecessors & successors 1994. 164pp Illus Indexed. Library stamps on title page, o/w VG in a VG dustwrapper & protective sleeve £10 Paget-Tomlinson, North West Steamships, 1980, 88pp pbk, many illus £10 Parkinson, Autobiography of Henry Newcome Vol2 1&2 Chetham Society 1852. A small library stamp on a preliminary page. o/w VG New endpapers £50* -do- Life of Adam Martindale, written by himself, 1845 Chetham Soc, 245pp index, new spine, VG £10 Patmore & Hodgkiss. Merseyside in maps. 1970. Pbk. 64pp Library stamp on title page.£6 Paz. The politics of working-class education in Britain 1830-50 (1980) 203pp Indexed. Extensive bibliography dw VG £6 Peisson, Outward Bound from Liverpool, 1934, 248pp novel, trans from French £10 Penn, Manchester 14 miles, 1947 reprint 1979, 241pp new intro, , working class autobiog, VG £8 -do- Young Mrs Burton. 1954. 256pp dw. Ex-library dw No 2 in a trilogy £8

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Pike. Liverpool & Birkenhead in the 20th century; Contemporary Biographoes. 1911. Large 4to in a ful leather fine binding. All edges gilt. 287pp Consists of hundreds of biographies & photos of dignitaries. A library’s stamps on title page and obverse. £90* Pollard & Robertson The British Shipbuilding Industry 1870-1914 (1979) 312pp. Indexed. Tables & figures but no illustrations. From a university library. Never issued. VG £20* Pugh & Nickalls Great Enterprise: history of Harrisons & Crosfield, 1990 272pp ills dw VG £15.. Raines. Notitia Cestriensis; Historical Notices of the Diocese of Chester made by Rev Gastrell. 4 vols Chetham Society 1845-50 Newly rebound. 3 of the volumes cover Lancashire £100 Raines & Sutton. The life of Humphrey Chetham. 1903 Chetham Soc. 2 vols (49,50) A society’s stamp on the title pages, o/w VG £40 Record Society of Lancashire & Cheshire. Miscellanies relating to Lancashire & Cheshire. Vol the First. (Vol 12 1885) 296pp 5 essays, including Homage Roll of the manor of Warrington 1491-1517 A library’s bookplate and Withdrawn stamp. £20 I have other Record Society publications, mostly listed under the volume’s editor Rimmer, Summer Rambles Round Manchester c1891 235pp index illus £20 Rothwell. Shipwrecks in the North-West 1983 Landscape Pbk. 40pp Illus VG £5 (Runcorn) Runcorn 1851 Stapled pbk 72pp Ilus Library stamps on title page o/w VG £6 Russell. Popular Music in England 1840-1914: A Social History. 1987 303pp + plates. Indexed. dw VG £12 Rylands, Freemasonry in Lancs & Cheshire –XV11 century. 1898 PENB 70pp & plates. Covers Lancs £25 -do- Lancashire & Cheshire Wills & Inventories Vol 3. Chetham Soc New series Vol 37. 167pp Many pages unopened. A label has been removed from the front pastedown. A small library’s blind stamp on title page o/w VG £20* -do- Cheshire & Lancashire Funeral Certificates 1600-78. Record Soc Vol 6. 1882. New endpapers and spine, with old spine laid on. 237pp Many pages unopened. VG £15 -do- The Visitation of Cheshire in the year 1580 made by Robert Glover for William Flower……1882 Harleian Society. 298pp. Bears a library’s stamps & bookplates. Top of spine missing. Needs a binder’s attention. £15 Saunders Roman NW England : Hinterland or ‘Indian Country’? 2011 A4 Pbk Ills VG £10 Scoffield. Bidston Observatory; the place & he people 2006 Pbk 344pp + folding plate. Illus.Library stamp on title page, o/w VG £15* Searle Spas & Watering Places 1977 160pp Illus VG dw £5 Shaw, History of the Liverpool Directories 1766-1907, 1906, 50pp PENB + plates £20 -do- Minutes of the Commiteee for the Relief of Plundered Ministers……Lancashire & Cheshire Pts 1& 2 1643--60. Record Society Vol s 28,34 1893/1896/ A society’s bookplate o/w VG 278/334pp £50* Smith. The History of Bradshaw; a centenary review of the origin & growth of the most famous guide in the world. 1939/ 76pp Illus £10 Stalker John. Stalker 1988 288pp + photo plates. Indexed. dw VG GMP police chief £6 Stevens & Stevens, Hidden Places of Lancashire & Cheshire 1991 pbk 259pp & VG £5

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Stewart-Brown, The Tower of Liverpool, and some notes on the Clayton family, 1909, PENB £15.. -do- (ed) Calendar of county court, city court & eyre rolls of Chester, 1259-97. (1925 Chetham Soc Vol 84)) 304pp Indexed. Iinscription on the free endpaper, o/w VG £30* Strickland & Davy. New evidence for Roman Chester; material from the Chester Conference of Nov 1977 (1978) A4 stapled pamphlet 44pp Ills Bears a library’s stamps on title page. Cellotape repair to spine. A society’s stamp on the half-title £5 Taylor Henry. Old Halls of Lancashire & Cheshire., including notes on the ancient domestic architecture of the counties palatine. 1884 Folio size. Subscribers Ed. 164pp + plates, Newly rebound. £100 Taylor & Ward, 3 Sides of the Mersey: an oral history of Everton, Liverpool & Tranmere Rovers, 1993, 290pp illus dw VG £10 Tepper (ed). Passengers to America; a consolidation of ship passenger lists from the New England Historical & Genealogical Register 1977Baltimore. 554pp An owner’s bookplate on paste-down. Foxing on top edge. o/w VG £15* Thornton & McLaughlin, The Fothergills of Ravenstonedale: their lives & letters 1905 250pp & plates Newly rebound in cloth with original crest laid onto front board VG £35* von Volborth Heraldry Customs, Rules & Styles. 1981 229pp. Some of 1219 ills are coloured. dw VG £10 Wainwright.(ed Finberg) Scandinavian England. 1975. 387pp Illus. Ex-library (never issued) o/w VG in dw & protective cover. £10 Walker, Amazing Gracie – (Fields), a visual celebration, 1998, 48pp A4 pbk, sepia & colour pics, VG £8 -do- The Liverpool Competition: .. the development of cricket on Merseyside 1988 Pbk 87pp Ex-library. Never issued. VG £5 Wilkes & Lovatt. Mow Cop & the Camp Meeting Movement; sketches of Primitive Methodism 1942. 242pp +photo plates & index. Bears a library’s stamps on title page. & free endpaper. £30* Wilkins-Jones. Tameside: an outline history of those parts of Lancashire & Cheshire now in Tameside.1978 Pbk 77pp + index VG £5 Willett. Art in a City 1967. 287pp + plates. Ex-library o/w VG. Liverpool & Wirral £10 Williams, Walks & Talks with Fellman, 1951, 269pp, boards, , sig fep o/w VG £10 -do- Metropolitan Manchester; A Social Atlas 1975 41pp + map plates. Library stamp on title page which is marked (where a label has been stuck?) but newly rebound. £15 Williams Trust. Nonconformist Congregations in Gt Britain : a list of histories…1973 151pp VG £10. Worsley, The Dwindling Furrows of Lowton 1988 151pp Illus dw VG £25.. -do- Family Furrows 1992. Limp cloth 105pp ills Limited to 200 copies (Lowton) £25..

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CHESHIRE ACTS OF PARLIAMENT

Disbound, i.e. no separate cover. Price £5 post free unless stated otherwise. Pay on receipt

(This list is dated 5.1. 20)

Acts of Parliament. You can send for my list of the Cheshire-related Acts. It includes local Acts relating to Marple, Macclesfield, Stalybridge, Widnes, Dukinfield, Ashton, Warrington, Birkenhead, Lymm, West Kirby, Chapel Whaley, ,Bromborough, Hoylake, West Kirby, Knutsford.

1824 Act for vesting certain estates in Leicester & Cheshire, devised by the will of Nathaniel WRIGHT of Low Marple 14pp £10 1838 Act to establish modern free school, Macclesfield 25pp £10.. 1838 Act to authorise the making of conveyances……devised or settled to the uses of the will of Thomas Peter Leigh, deceased…connected with the estate (.lengthy title) 52pp on paper. Many names included. Dusty £20 North Cheshire Water Act 1864 24pp Ashton & Stalybridge Waterworks Act 26pp Widnes Improvement,1867 33pp Ashton, Stalybridge & Dukinfield District Waterworks Act 1870 38pp+ Lymm Local Board Gas Act 1872 , l4pp Widnes Local Board Act 1875 14pp Warrington Corporation Gas Act 1877 , 23pp Dukinfield & Denton Local Boards (Gas) Act 1877 37pp Ashton Gas Act 1877 12pp Ashton Improvement Act 1877 16pp Warrington Waterworks Act 1878 21pp Warrington Corporation Lighting & Improvement Act 1879 20pp Liverpool & Birkenhead Subway Act 1880 32pp Stalybridge Extension & Improvement Act 1881 62pp Chester Improvement Act, 1884, 94pp Sandbach Gas Act, 1884, 17pp Stalybridge & Mossley Gas Act 1885 22pp Ashton u Lyne Improvement Act 1886 101pp Frodsham Gas & Water Act 1888 33pp Liverpool & Birkenhead Subway A ct 1888 6pp Liverpool & Birkenhead Subway Act 1889 7pp Wallasey Local Board Act, 1890, 3Opp Warrington Extension & Water Act, 1890, 37pp Runcorn Commissioners Act, 1893, 21pp Ashton u Lyne Corporation Act 1893 25pp

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Queen’s Ferry Bridge Act, 1894, 30pp Local Govt Board’s Provisional Order Confirmation (Warrington) Act 1896 16pp Chester Corporation Act 1901, 39pp (Trams) Chester Gas Act 1901 18pp Ashton,Stalybridge & Dukinfield District Waterworks Act 1907 16pp Birkenhead Corporation Water Act, 1907, 137pp .. Widnes Corporation Act, 1908, 59pp Audenshaw UDC Act 1908 30pp Chester Waterworks Act, 1911, 35pp Widnes & Runcorn Bridge (Transfer) Act, 1911 Chapel Whaley & District Gas Act 1911 40pp Marple UDC Gas Act 1911 22pp West Cheshire Water Act 1911 16pp Lymm UDC Act, 1913, 64pp North Cheshire Water Act, 1917, 12pp Ashton u Lyne Corporation Act 1917 53pp Wallasey Corporation Act 1920 38pp Lever Brothers Ltd (Wharves & Railway) Act 1920 20pp Upper Mersey Navigation Act, 1920, 8pp Chester Gas Act, 1922, 9pp Bromborough Gas Act 1923 24pp Hoylake & West Kirby Gas & Water Act, 1923, 68pp Ashton-u-Lyne Corporation Act 1924 71pp Hoylake & West Kirby UDC Act, 1925, 75pp Chester Corporation Act, 1929, 158pp £8 Chester Waterworks Act, 1930, 38pp Chester Corporation Act, 1932, 18pp Knutsford Light & Water Act, 1933, 26pp County of Chester Review Order 1936 90pp Bound in blue cloth. Library stamps £10

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CHESHIRE PATENTS – INDEX TO NAMES (As at 29.10.2015) (In Bold = More than one item)

………………………………………………………………………………………….. • Atkinson …Alverti…Anderson…Ashton…Adams…Ayrton • Billings…Beckett…Barclay……Boardman…Birchenhough…Brook…Belton……Brown… Bayliff… Brooke… • Cheshire..Clarke..Crosfield…Caldwell…Cotton….Christian….Callie… Cowap…Clayton…Charlotte • Downie…Deam…Davies • Evans…Ellis • Freeman…Farley…Fairey...Fletcher • Gibson…Gare…Ginman… Gates…Gemmell • Hargreaves…Hayward…Hulme…Hirst…Hancock…Harris…Hilton… • Head…Horn…Hood… Hartenheim • Jones…Jager • Kendrick • Littler…Lever…Leigh…Lake…Leask…Lea…Lee…Lees…Laurenson…Lloyd • Meldrum…Mellor…Mellin…Monk…Merkel…Morris…Moran…Moss…Moore….Milne… Macready…Meredith…Metcalfe • Niblock…Nightingale… • Ogden…Ormandy…Ordidge • Phillips…Parry…Pickard…Piercy…Page • Robinson… Roberts…Rowland • Spann…Squibb…Storrar…Stocks…Swan…Stevenson…Smith…Stubbs • Thornton-Pickard… Todd…Taylor…Thorne • Whittle…Wynne…Walker…White…Waltho…Whaley……Watson…Walkden… Williams…Wallace…Woodroffe…Worsencroft

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PATENTS APPLIED FOR BY CHESHIRE RESIDENTS

(Correct as at 21.1.2018 )

This is a list of Patent Specifications in the names of Cheshire-based inventors. They were published by The Patent Office and printed by HMSO. Approx A4 size, they are unbound, having been disbound from a book of patents. Some are stapled . They bear a library’s stamp. I show the number of pages of text (pp), but each has at least one page of drawings extra to this. £5 each, post-free , pay on receipt They were published in the year shown, and I show the Patent Office’s Reference Number, which should be used for ordering please with the year.

1888 15725 Samuel WORSENCROFT, Poynton…improvements in cowls/ventilators 2pp 1889 94 James & John HARGREAVES and Thomas ROBINSON, Widnes…treating lime refuse for cement 5pp 393 James LITTLER, Altrincham…displaying advertisements 5pp 1895 7123 Isaac HAYWARD, Warrington…rolling mills 4pp 1896 5138Wm Taylor BIRCHENHOUGH, Macclesfield…power looms for weaving figured goods 4pp 1898 11739 Jacob ALVERTI, Sale & another…advertising stands 2pp 1904 286 John Edward Lewis OGDEN, Liscard…steam traps 9pp 5422 James J & Walter K MELDRUM, Timperley… engines 5pp 5522 John Ed THORNTON, Altrincham…photographic roller blind shutters 3pp 8647 Arthur MELLOR, Macclesfield…arresting delivery in twisting machinery 3pp 12875 John Edward Lewis OGDEN, Liscard…steam traps 4pp 12955 John CALLIE, Birkenhead…Improvements in windows 5pp 13340 Robert GIBSON, Prince Edward St, Birkenhead…refacing valve seats 3pp 13412 John Wm WHITTLE, Warrington…link belting 2pp 14540 William & James HULME, Sale…plant pots 2pp 17475 Herbert LEES, Irby…an improved harrow 2pp 20108 John RIGBY, Winsford…apparatus for drawing salt pans 6pp 25405 Athol Wilfrid CLARKE, West Didsbury…packing rings for turbines 3pp 26198 Edward Williams WYNNE, Seacombe…purifying petroleum oils 3pp 28858 John Arthur HIRST & Percy Smith BROOK, Chester…electric switch 3pp 29197 Max Louis MELLIN, Birkenhead…driving belts 4pp 29352 Charles Edward FREEMAN & Sandycroft Foundry Co, Chester…nut-locking devices 4pp 29631 John Edward THORNTON, Altrincham…cases of photographic films 7pp 1905

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2045 Robert Grundy BROOKE, Upton Grange, Macclesfield…water heating 9pp 2517 Thomas GARE, New Brighton…silent & resilient wheels 3pp 3635 Andrew ANDERSON, Liscard…hooks for hoisting gear 3pp 4376 James HANCOCK, Samuel SPANN, Tranmere & another… gas meters 6pp 4589 Henry MONK, gunsmith, Chester…epicyclic gearing 5108 Joseph John CROSFIELD, Frodsham & Dr Karl Emil MERKEL, Warrington…separation of solids from liquids 3pp 5190 Moses John ROBERTS, Rock Ferry…stern tubes of steam ships 2pp 5192 Benjamin CALDWELL, Lower Bridge St, Chester…screwed cotter bolts 1pp 5313 Moses John ROBERTS, Rock Ferry…improvements in dumb-bells 2pp 7770 George COTTON, The Croft, Holmeschapel (sic) steam generators etc..3pp 9182 Frederick NIBLOCK, Wallasey…valve for high-pressure steam 3pp 9184 -do-…rings for steam pistons 3pp 9867 Thomas Frederick JONES, West Kirby…exhibiting curtains 3pp 18533 Francis Aldred Lodge HARRIS, Alderley Edge…fire-resisting flooring 4pp 13100 Reginald Frank BILLINGS & Reginald Augustus SQUIBB, of Andrew STORRAR & Co, Chester…cheese makers required to be tilted 3pp 15981 Matthew HILTON, Hale & another…beetling machines 4pp 17187 Rupert Arthur MORRIS, Stockton Heath…substitutes for felt,linoleum etc 3pp Not illus 17509 Thomas Redfern LEIGH, Didsbury…joints for hot water pipes etc 2pp 17919 Thomas Downie, WALLASEY…filtering steam generators 3pp 19769 Wm Ernest ASHTON of ASHTON Bros & PHILLIPS Ltd, Warrington…construction of mail carts, invalid carriages etc 2pp 19770 Albert Henry WALKER, Runcorn…automatic steam brake 2pp 19786 John Harrop JONES, Sale…sash/casement windows 2pp 21282 Francis James MORAN, Birkenhead…preventing punctures in tyres 3pp 22553 Harry Benwell STOCKS, Didsbury…percussive hand tools 4pp 22567 Max Louis MELLIN, Birkenhead…driving belts 3pp 23148 with 23148A John SWAN, Liscard…machinery for making cigarettes 8pp 24367 Joseph Walwyn WHITE, Widnes…aerial ropeweay conveyors 6pp 24377 Alfred WALTHO, Liscard…machines for making caps for bottles 4pp 25634 Bartholemew Richmond ROWLAND, Altrincham…superheating steam 6pp 25772 Archibald Frank STEVENSON, Warrington…propulsion of vehicles 4pp 1906 14638 Wm Marrow BECKETT, Lymm…automatic sewage lifts 3pp 1908 2165 Bertram Maurice JAGER, Birkenhead…(liquid) filtering apparatus 2pp 3086 John Tomlinson WHALEY, Post Office, Saughall…apparatus for holding bags upright for filling 3pp 3897 Clifford BARCLAY, Willowbank Rd, Birkenhead… engines 3pp 5686 Edward Alan CHRISTIAN, Park Rd South, Birkenhead…current-collecting for electric railway vehicles 3pp 6201 Arthur Edwin BOARDMAN, , Warrington…soap plodders 3pp 6286 Frederick Geo LAKE, Prestbury, clock maker…workmen’s time register 9pp 7250 Wm Henry NIGHTINGALE, Newgate St, Chester…milk cans etc 3pp

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8116 Wm Edward MOSS, Liscard…steam pumps 3pp 10015 Jane Esther SMITH, ‘Valewood’, Mobberley…spring-operated hairpins 2pp 10461 Robert PARRY, ‘Westcote’ , Hoole…road paving blocks 2pp 10469 THORNTON-PICKARD Ltd ( Arthur PICKARD & Thomas W PIERCY Altrincham…reflex cameras 3pp 10551 Frank Edward ADAMS, Pressure Tool Co, Birkenhead/Wallasey …manufacture of cans 5pp 12481 -do- …sheet metal boxes 5pp 13520 Max HARTENHEIM, Park Rd, Hale…control of electric motors 4pp 14870 John DEAM, Ellesmere Port…indicating horse-power of steam engines 4pp 16270 Wm THOMPSON, Duke St, Birkenhead…sheet metal panels3pp 17387 John Henry PAGE , Ellesmere Port…turbine for boiler feeding2pp 18542 John Charles BELTON, Sandy Lane, Chester…siphons for gas mains 3pp 22799 Wm Thomas WATSON, ,Didsbury…tyre pressure indicator 2pp 23105 Robert Thomas SMITH, Lovely Lane, Warrington…wheels for vehicles 4pp 23864 Wm JONES, Whitby Rd, Ellesmere Port…crane jib indicator 3pp 24467 Gilbert Arthur BECKETT, Seacombe…electro-galvanising equipment 4pp 26980 John Edward THORNTON, Altrincham & another…film packs 4pp 26985 Richard Henry GINMAN & Robert Harry BROWN, Birkenhead…stop valves for liquids, gases 4pp 1909 10173 Alfred AYRTON, Chichester St, Chester…tent pegs etc 3pp 10235 Ernest EVANS, Liscard…feeding cake machinery 3pp 10720 Wm & Thomas Dutton BAYLIFF, Birkenhead…turbines5pp 11592 Albert Edward WALKDEN, Liscard…shoe stud protectors 2pp 11770 Robert Thomas SMITH, Warrington…wheels for vehicles 4pp 13987 John Henry PAGE, Ellesmere Port…steam generators 2pp 14750 LEVER Bros Ltd & another…extraction of glycerine from salt in the soap-making process 6pp 15558 Richard MOORE, Runcorn…filling and closing packets 3pp 15593 James TODD, Birkenhead…fastening for smoke-box doors 3pp 18496 John FARLEY, Liscard…an advertising device 2pp 20065 John TAYLOR, Stockton Heath…boring inverted conical holes 1pp 20880 Henry Norman LEASK, Egremont…apparatus for cooling water etc 4pp 20894 Wm Edgar & Francis Richard LEA, Runcorn…variable speed gears 5pp 20953 John CALLIE, Harland Rd, Birkenhead…ventilators 4pp 21141 John Alfred COWAP, Timperley…variable-throw cranks 2pp 21159 Peter JONES, Hr Tranmere…printers’ mounting boards 2pp 21250 Wm Craven ELLIS, Bowdon…pneumatic tyres 5pp22433 Leonard STUBBS,Lowland Rd, Runcorn…pressure regulators 4pp 27464 Wm Reginald ORMANDY, , Warrington…packages for soap 3pp 27491 Harry Benwell STOCKS, Didsbury…internal combustion engine 6pp 27618 Allan Heathcote WILLIAMS, Greenbank House, Chester…internal combustion engine gears 3pp 27875 Melville Graham CLAYTON, Wallasey…nuts and bolts 4pp 27968 Miles WALKER, Hale…dynamo electric machines 5pp

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28691 James MILNE, dairyman, Birkenhead…sieves for milk 3pp 28793 Harold George MACREADY, Seacombe…reversible steam turbines 6pp 30234 Robert WILSON, Birkenhead…treatment of blood products 5pp 30310 George MONK, Upton…casement windows 2pp 30541 James Neilson WALLACE, West Didsbury…indicators for engines 5pp 1910 11521 Frank Knight WOODROFFE, Hoole Rd, Newton…analysing a gas 6pp 13364 FLETCHER RUSSELL & Co & Thomas Wm FLETCHER, Warrington…spray burners for brazing 2pp 20279 Frank Knight WOODROFFE, Newton…super heaters3pp 20838 Alan KENDRICK, Hooton…tyre manipulating appliances 2pp 20912 John FARLEY , Liscard…advertising appliances 3pp 21357 George Henry LAURENSON & Walter Trantom THORNE , Egremont Promenade…making ice 6pp 23343 Alan KENDRICK, Hooton…tyre manipulating instrument 2pp 24111 Ernest EVANS, Liscard…oil extracting machinery 4pp 1924 215800 Henry David Llewellyn LLOYD, Warrington…wire nails 6pp 1925 244918 John GATES, Woodfield Rd, Altrincham…fireproof ceilings 5pp 1934 414156 Frederick CHARLOTTE, Lacey St, Widnes & another…gas meters 3pp 414250 Andrew Stuart HORN, Prenton…writing nibs 3pp 1938 478071 Allan Heathcote WILLIAMS, , Chester…ammunition cases 5pp 1939 505230 FAIREY Aviation Co , Hayes & Frank Henry ORDIDGE, Wilmslow…mounting of guns on aircraft 2pp 512033 Norman Roy HOOD, Runcorn , Thomas Harold MEREDITH, Liverpool & ICI Ltd…de- greasing articles with volatile solvents 4pp 512076 Archibald Johnstone GEMMELL,Timperley…lathes 3pp 512080 DAVIES & METCALFE Ltd, Romiley…steam injectors 7pp 1957 772055 Ernest LEE, Appleton Grove, Sale…electrical counting apparatus 2pp

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